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Birthday February 22, 1783

• The temperature on February 22, 1783 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
• 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)
• In the year 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • 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.
  • April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
  • June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
  • June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
  • November 3 » The American Continental Army is disbanded.
  • November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

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• 1778 » Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator († 1860)
• 1788 » Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author († 1860)
• 1796 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist († 1874)
• 1796 » Alexis Bachelot, French priest and missionary († 1837)
• 1805 » Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, English poet and hymnwriter († 1848)
• 1806 » Józef Kremer, Polish historian and philosopher († 1875)