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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1783. 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the Thirteen...
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    Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Prussia (3 July 1783 – 28 September 1851) was the son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt...
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    William Cavendish MP (10 January 1783 – 14 January 1812) was an English nobleman and Whig politician. He was the son of Lord George Cavendish, later Earl...
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    The Peace of Paris of 1783 was the set of treaties that ended the American Revolutionary War. On 3 September 1783, representatives of King George III...
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    Events from the year 1783 in Canada. January 20 – Preliminaries of peace are signed between Great Britain and the United States. September 3 – American...
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  • John Walton (1738–1783), a Founding Father of the United States, was a Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress. Though born in Virginia, Walton later...
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    Laki (redirect from 1783 eruption of Laki)
    direction. The system erupted violently over an eight-month period between June 1783 and February 1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjoining volcano Grímsvötn...
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    Crimean Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire on 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1783. Russia had wanted more control over the Black Sea, and an end to the Crimean...
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    the British and French began gradually evacuating their forces. In March 1783, Washington successfully calmed the Newburgh Conspiracy, a planned mutiny...
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    Battle of Delhi was fought between the Dal Khalsa and the Mughal Empire in 1783. The Sikhs under Baghel Singh, Jassa Singh Ramgarhia, and Jassa Singh Ahluwalia...
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    Sophie d'Artois (5 August 1776 – 5 December 1783) was a member of the House of Bourbon as the elder daughter and second child of Princess Maria Theresa...
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    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1783)
    The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1783. April 14 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan der Weise receives its...
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    Pitt the Younger led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801. In 1800, the Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland were...
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    garrison under George Augustus Eliott was blockaded from June 1779 to February 1783, initially by the Spanish alone, led by Martín Álvarez de Sotomayor. The...
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  • Kosmos 1783 (Russian: Космос 1783 meaning Cosmos 1783) is a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1986 as part of the Soviet...
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    Great Britain, sometimes with their respective allies, between 1778 and 1783. As a consequence, Great Britain was forced to divert resources used to fight...
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  • Alexander was a merchant ship launched at Hull in 1783 or 1784. She was one of the vessels in the First Fleet, that the British government hired to transport...
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    The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated the ultimately...
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  • American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 is a 1980 nonfiction book by American historian Lawrence A. Cremin, published by Harper & Row. The...
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    Life on the Upper Susquehanna, 1783–1860 is a history book by James A. Frost, an American historian and university administrator, published in 1951. Susquehanna...
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  • The year 1783 in science and technology involved some significant events: February 26 – Caroline Herschel discovers NGC 2360. May – John Goodricke presents...
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    actions of privateers. The siege of Gibraltar, June 16, 1779, to February 7, 1783, was the longest-lasting Spanish action in the war. Despite the larger size...
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  • The history of New York City (1665–1783) began with the establishment of English rule over Dutch New Amsterdam and New Netherland. As the newly renamed...
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    administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1764–1783 and again in 1796–1802. It was created and governed according to the "Plan...
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    NGC 1783 (also known as ESO 85-SC29) is a globular cluster within the Dorado constellation and part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite dwarf galaxy...
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    Poland-Lithuania were often the target of slave raids during this period. In 1783, after the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), the Russian Empire annexed Crimea...
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    Continental Congress, and temporary national capital of the United States in 1783–1784. At that time, General George Washington came before the body convened...
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