February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
Day of death November 19, 1783
The temperature on November 19, 1783 was about 10.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
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.
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.
October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
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