* 1710 – Caffarelli, Italian castrato and opera singer ( d. 1783 )

* 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War ( or American War of Independence ) are ratified.

* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

* 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35, 000 people.

* 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom ( d. 1810 )

* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1709 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter ( d. 1783 )

Anne's mother, Maria Branwell ( 1783 – 1821 ), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.

* 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works ( d. 1783 )

The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.

* 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( b. 1783 )

Thābit's formula was rediscovered by Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) and Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), to whom it is sometimes ascribed, and extended by Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ).

to date ( 1959 – 2008 ), definitive edition, through 1783.

French mathematician Étienne Bézout ( 1730 – 1783 ) proved this identity for polynomials.

Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.

* 1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military leader ( b. 1783 )

* 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor ( b. 1783 )

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer ( d. 1783 )

* Cremin, Lawrence A., " American Education: The Colonial Experience 1607 – 1783 ," First Edition, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

* 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1717 )

* William Alvey Darwin ( 3 October 1726 – 7 October 1783 )

In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).

The botanist and physician Jonathan Stokes, who had known William Withering as a child, moved to Stourbridge and started attending Lunar Society meetings from 1783.

Luxembourg remained a possession of the kings of the Netherlands until the death of William III in 1890, when the grand duchy passed to the House of Nassau-Weilburg due to a Nassau inheritance pact of 1783.

* 1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist ( d. 1783 )

His work The principles of government ; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant: printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, 1783 was the subject of a trial for seditious libel after it was reprinted by his brother-in-law William Shipley.

The first white dwarf discovered was in the triple star system of 40 Eridani, which contains the relatively bright main sequence star 40 Eridani A, orbited at a distance by the closer binary system of the white dwarf 40 Eridani B and the main sequence red dwarf 40 Eridani C. The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1783 ;< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > it was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.

** William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor ( b. 1783 )

* May 23 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist ( d. 1783 )

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

Portland Street was named after William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1783 and between 1807 and 1809.

It dates to 1783, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of William Lee Davidson, a North Carolina general who was killed opposing General Cornwallis and the British Army's crossing of the Catawba River on February 1, 1781.

Her father, William Smith ( 1707 – 1783 ), a liberal Congregationalist, and other forebears were Congregational ministers, and leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.

William Bell, who came to Chateaugay Lake around 1783, sold to Samuel C. Drew, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, who came to the area about 1816 and settled on the west shore of the Lower Lake.

The earliest settlers on the section of bottomland that would one day become Philippi were William Anglin ( as early as 1783 or ' 84 ) and Daniel Booth ( 1787 ).

* Lord William Douglas ( William Robert Keith Douglas, 1783 – 1859 ), British MP

In 1792-93 he succeeded in carrying a Roman Catholic Relief Act conferring the franchise on Catholics ; in 1794 in conjunction with William Ponsonby, he introduced a reform bill which was even less democratic than Flood's bill of 1783.

Wilkes became a supporter of William Pitt the Younger who became Prime Minister in 1783, and severed most of his former radical connections.

Though it is named for Edwin Hubble, it was discovered in 1783 by William Herschel.

Clark's five older brothers fought in Virginia units during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ), but William was too young.

A Roman Monument at Igel in the Dutchy of Luxemburgh, coloured engraving published by John Boydell, London ( 1783 ) from a painting by Edward Rooker ( 1712 ?- 1774 ) after William Pars ( 1742 – 1782 )

* Lord North, The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North from 1768 to 1783, William Bodham Donne, ed.