Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

* 1711 – Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer ( d. 1783 )

The company that first sponsored the opera was the Nationalsingspiel (" national Singspiel "), a pet project ( 1778 – 1783 ) of the Austrian emperor Joseph II.

He served for some time in the Austrian army, and afterwards lived in London from 1783 to 1786 as tutor in the house of the Saxon ambassador, Hans Moritz von Brühl.

These wars were the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1744 – 1748 ), the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), the War of the American Revolution ( 1778 – 1783 ), the French Revolutionary Wars ( 1793 – 1802 ) and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

From this education, he obtained a commission in the Austrian army, but resigned it in 1783 on finding his humble birth hindered his chances for promotion.

The Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425, ( known as the Linz Symphony ) was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during a stopover in the Austrian town of Linz on his and his wife's way back home to Vienna from Salzburg in late 1783.

Between 1778 and 1783, William Bolts attempted to establish an Austrian colony on the islands on the mistaken assumption that Denmark had abandoned its claims to the islands.

The 65-year-old Duncan was a veteran of the wars of the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1762 ) and the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) and had fought at numerous engagements with distinction and success.

The family was confirmed as Szlachta in 1783 and 1825 by the Austrian authorities in Galicia.

* Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg ( 1783 – 1849 ), Austrian officer during the Napoleonic Wars

** Count Ferdinánd ( 1783 – 1862 ) was the Austrian field-marshal condemned to ten years ' imprisonment for surrendering Venice to the insurgents in 1848 ( he was pardoned in 1851 ).

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

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

* 1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer ( d. 1783 )

* March 6 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer ( b. 1783 )

* March 25 – Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer ( d. 1783 )

Mozart advertised for subscribers in January 1783: " These three concertos, which can be performed with full orchestra including wind instruments, or only a quattro, that is with 2 violins, 1 viola and violoncello, will be available at the beginning of April to those who have subscribed for them ( beautifully copied, and supervised by the composer himself ).

Johann Adolph Hasse ( baptised 25 March 1699 in Bergedorf, Germany – 16 December 1783 in Venice ) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.

* March 6-Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer ( b. 1783 )

* April 23-Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer ( b. 1783 )

** Alexander Uber, cellist and composer ( born 1783 )

* January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer ( b. 1783 )

* 25 September – Charlotta Seuerling, singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet ( b. c. 1783 )

Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as padre ( clergyman ) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos ( baptized 3 December 1729, died 20 December 1783 ) was a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras.

Erik Gustaf Geijer ( 12 January 1783 – 23 April 1847 ) was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer.

* Johann Adolph Hasse ( 1699 – 1783 ), German composer

* December 3 – Antonio Soler, composer ( died 1783 )

* April 19 – James Nares, composer ( died 1783 )

* September 18 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer ( died 1783 )

James Nares ( 19 April 1715 – 10 February 1783 ) was an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and organ.

Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer ( 18 September 1711 – 7 April 1783 ) was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school.

* March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer ( died 1783 )

** Juliane Benda, ( 1752 – 1783 ), singer, composer, and daughter of František ; later known as Juliane Reichardt

Johann Philipp Kirnberger ( also Kernberg, 24 April 1721, Saalfeld-27 July 1783, Berlin ) was a musician, composer ( primarily of fugues ), and music theorist.

Karl Friedrich ruled well for 73 years ( 1738 – 1811 ) and was an enthusiast for The Enlightenment ; he abolished serfdom in 1783.

His father, Georg Karl Benjamin Ritschl ( 1783 – 1858 ), became in 1810 a pastor at the church of St Mary in Berlin, and from 1827 to 1854 was general superintendent and evangelical bishop of Pomerania.

The Swedish province of Uppland has been a stronghold for nyckelharpa music since the late 16th century, including musicians like Byss-Calle ( Karl Ersson Bössa, 1783 – 1847 ) from Älvkarleby.

On 22 October 1806 in London he married Hannah Barent-Cohen ( 1783 – 1850 ), daughter of Levi Barent-Cohen ( 1747 – 1808 ) and wife Lydia Diamantschleifer and paternal granddaughter of Barent Cohen and wife, whose other son Salomon David Barent-Cohen ( d. 1807 ) married Sara Brandes, great-grandparents of Karl Marx.

Karl Friedrich Abt ( 1743, Stuttgart – 20 November 1783, Bremen ) was an early German actor.

* Johann Karl Nestler ( 1783 – 1841 ) – agronomist, early researcher of genetics