About the day » Monday January 6, 1783Calender converter

• Benedictus Josephus ( Lenquette ) Linquette, Valenciennes: Nord, Frankrijk († 1847)
• Daniel Smets, Kalkar/D († 1818)
• Antonia Westphalen
• Clasina Maria van de Middegaal, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christianus van Oppen, Heerlen (Hoensbroek) (Limburg)
• Catherine Elizabeth Rosti, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada († 1857)
• Anna Maria SELLING, Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Boojink, Borculo
• Daughter Princess Of France, Versailles, Île-de-France, France († 1783)
• Antoinette, Gräfin von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg, Hildesheim, Niedersachsen, Germany († 1867)

• Hermann Tiemanns (80), Fresenburg
• Gerardus Kramer, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Waldner zu Freundstein (0)
• Anthonia Hovendaal (77), Rotterdam
• François Régis BOUSCARY (0), Pomayrols, Aveyron, FRANCE
• Engelina Cornelius VERHOEVEN (60), Oosterhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne VAYSE (78), Rullac-Saint-Cirq, 12207, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France
• Abraham Hollestelle (23), Breskens,ZL
• Hermann Heinrich Tymann, Fresenburg
• Angela (engelina) Cornelii Verhoeven (60)

• 1745 » Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon († 1799)
• 1766 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay († 1840)
• 1785 » Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist († 1860)
• 1793 » James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War († 1862)
• 1795 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic († 1871)
• 1799 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author († 1831)
• 1803 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer († 1888)
• 1807 » Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1891)
• 1808 » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist († 1864)
• 1811 » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician († 1874)

• 1711 » Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 » Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 » Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1731 » Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 » John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)

1. Jan
2. Hendrik
3. Johannes
4. Pieter
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. Jean
15. John
16. Henricus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Aaltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Jannetje

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• 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.
• May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
• November 25 » American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

The temperature on January 6, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.