The temperature on May 11, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
May 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
August 4 » Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Christening day May 18, 1783
The temperature on May 18, 1783 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by east. Weather type: betrokken. 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 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
September 3 » American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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