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.

After they massacred the Caribs, the British and French turned on each other and St Kitts changed hands between the two several times before the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) gave the island to Britain.

The 1783 Treaty of Paris gave Great Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank of the river, which was ceded to the British in 1857.

After the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the Treaty of Versailles in 1783 gave all former British claims in New France below the Great Lakes into the possession of the nascent United States.

The Treaty of Versailles ( 1783 ) between Britain and Spain, gave the British rights to cut logwood between the Hondo and Belize rivers.

Catherine also gave the name of the Hermitage to her private theatre, built nearby between 1783 and 1787 by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.

He wrote Syllabus in English of Documents in Rymer's Foedera ( 3 vols., 1869? f 885 ), and gave an account of the history of the public records from 1837 to 1851 in his Memoirs of the Life of Henry, Lord Langdale ( 1852 ), Lord Langdale ( 1783 – 1851 ), master of the rolls from 1836 to 1851, being largely responsible for the erection of the new Record Office.

Between 1782 and 1783 we find Stamitz in the Netherlands where he gave concerts in The Hague and in Amsterdam.

Villaret was exchanged in 1783, and after the battle of Cuddalore ( 20 June 1783 ), Suffren gave him command of the frigate Bellone.

With the arrival of news of a preliminary peace in April 1783 Congress began to order the demobilization of the army, and Washington gave Knox day-to-day command of what remained of the army.

Elizabeth gave birth to three more girls: Elizabeth Franks on 17 October 1779 ; Mira ( or Myra ) in 1781 ; and Abigail in September 1783.

He served until June 4, 1783 when he was succeeded by John Jay, who served until March 4, 1789, when the government under the Articles of Confederation gave way to the government under the Constitution.

The Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) gave the United States shared rights to fish in these waters, but that section of the Treaty is no longer in force.

Although the 1783 Treaty of Paris gave the fledgling United States a claim to what is now Michigan, British policy was to hold on to Detroit and its dependencies at all costs.

The year 1783, which gave peace to Europe and America, destroyed the hopes of the American loyalists.

With the end of the war, the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) with Great Britain gave the United States independence and control of the Northwest Territories, at least on paper.

She remained in France until 1780 ; then from 1780 to 1783, she sang at the Teatro Reggio in Turin and gave performances in Germany and Austria in 1781.

In February, 1783, George Washington directed him to capture Fort Ontario, but Willet's force gave up the attempt when the possibility of surprise was lost.

On 30 June 1783 Fitzwilliam gave his maiden speech, giving the government's objections to the Shelburnite MP William Pitt's Bill to reform abuses in public offices.

Maria Carolina patronised German-Swiss artists, foremostly Angelica Kauffman, who famously painted the Queen's family in an informal garden setting in 1783, and gave her daughters lessons in drawing.

The abolition of slavery in the state in 1783 gave blacks greater physical mobility, but their social mobility was slow.

In 1783 he became General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1797 his articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica gave a good account of the scientific, mathematical and technological knowledge of the day.

Both his grandmothers took care of Benjamin, who was educated by private tutors in Belgium ( 1779 ), Holland ( 1780 ), and at the protestant University of Erlangen ( 1783 ), where he got appointed at the court of Duchess Sophie Caroline Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

During one such observation run on the large telescope in 1783, Caroline became caught on an iron hook and when she was helped off "... they could not lift me without leaving nearly 2 ounces of my flesh behind.

Credit for discovery is sometimes given instead to Caroline Herschel in 1783.

The galaxy was independently discovered by Caroline Herschel on August 27, 1783 ; her brother William Herschel described her discovery in 1785.

The cluster was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783 and cataloged by her brother William Herschel in 1786, although an object that may have been NGC 752 was described by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654.

It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.

It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.

It was probably discovered by Caroline Herschel or by William Herschel in 1783.

It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.

It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.

During her leisure hours she occupied herself with observing the sky with a focal length Newtonian telescope and by this means detected a number of astronomical objects during the years 1783 – 87, including most notably an independent discovery of M110 ( NGC 205 ), the second companion of the Andromeda Galaxy.

* William Herschel ( astronomer to George III and discoverer of the planet Uranus ) lived with his sister in a house on Horton Road in 1782 and from 1783 to 1785, he occupied " The Lawn " on Horton Road and built a 20 ft telescope in the garden.

More importantly was the abandonment of heavy make-up and the popular wide-hooped panniers for a more simple feminine look, typified first by the rustic robe à la polonaise and later by the ' gaulle ,' a simple muslin dress that she wore in a 1783 Vigée-Le Brun portrait.

On April 1, 1783, she was promoted and spent seven months serving as a waiter to General John Paterson.

In 1809, she sent another petition to Congress, asking that her pension as an invalid soldier, given to her in 1804, commence with the time of her discharge, in 1783.

However, her leg never healed properly, and her gender was finally revealed when she was hospitalized for a wound-related infection in 1783.

In June 1783 she sailed for St. Pierre and Miquelon.

There she was released back to France in 1783, after she had been present at the Battle of Cuddalore, and re-entered on the lists in January 1784.

In May 1783, she married an old friend, John Claypoole.

In the following autumn Graves was appointed to the frigate HMS Magicienne, in which, on 2 January 1783, he fought a very severe action with the French Sibylle, which was encumbered with a second ship's company which she was carrying to the Chesapeake.

In January 1783, three months before her death, she was awarded the Prix Monyon, recently established by the Académie to honour the author of the " book published in the current year that might be of most benefit to society "; it was her Conversations d ' Émilie ( 1774 ),

A member of the Kemble family of actors, she made her first appearance on the stage in 1783 at Drury Lane as Portia.

She was apprenticed to a mantua-maker, however, she acquired some theatrical experience in the provinces, and appeared at Drury Lane on 22 February 1783 as Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

The Empress took such a great liking of the Gatchina Palace and park that at Orlov's death in 1783 she bought it from his heirs and presented it to her son, the future Emperor Paul I.

In 1783 she agreed to to become an annual subscriber of £ 25 to the new County Infirmary in Northampton.

Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford ( 3 September 1783 – 3 July 1857 ) was a lifelong friend of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, whom she served as a Lady of the Bedchamber between 1837 and 1841.

During the King's Italian journey in 1783 – 84, she held a grand formal public dinner for the city every two weeks.

Around 1783, she met Cardinal Prince Louis de Rohan.

Nevertheless, in a paper in Literature Magazine ( No. 10, Hanoi 1964 ), Tran Thanh Mai claims that Hồ Xuân Hương's hometown was the same as mentioned above, but she was a daughter of Ho Si Danh ( 1706 – 1783 ) and a younger stepsister of Ho Si Dong ( 1738 – 1786 )"

By 1783 she was married to Thomas West ( d. 1823 ), a yeoman farmer from Leicestershire.

In 1783 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the first woman among this academy's foreign members, and its second female member after Eva Ekeblad.

On 13 October 1783 she married James Billington ( 1756 – 1794 ), a double-bass player.