March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
Day of death November 2, 1783
The temperature on November 2, 1783 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent 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 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
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 15 » Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
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