January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
Day of marriage April 30, 1783
The temperature on April 30, 1783 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
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