Great Britain acknowledges the independence of the United States of America (Feb 3), A Great Jubilee Day, celebrating the end of the American Revolution, is held in Trumbull, Connecticut (May 26), the eruption of Laki in Iceland kills tens of thousands and causes widespread famine in Europe (Jun 8), the Paris Peace Treaty ends formally the American Revolutionary War; with independence secured, this is the beginning of the Old West (Sep 3), the last British troops leave New York City, and George Washington triumphantly returns (Nov 25) – and all these fine people were born:
1783-xxxx Hugh Glass* frontiersman/trader/mauled by a grizzly bear – Scranton, PA USA (1833/c.50) 1783-0104 Aleksander Lauréus* painter/art teacher - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1823/40) 1783-0117 Carl Gustaf Ramsay* lieutenant/died in the Finnish War - Jakari, Sweden-Finland (1808/25) 1783-0120 Friederich Dotzauer* cellist/composer - Hildburghausen, Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg (1860/77) 1783-0121 Gustaf Lundahl* merchant/cultural influencer - Messukylä, Sweden-Finland (1846/63) 1783-0125 William Colgate* British-American soap industrialist/founder of what became the Colgate-Palmolive company/to America at age 15 - Hollingbourne, Kent, England (1857/74) 1783-0208 Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont* general/military governor of French Algeria - Chaumont, France (1837/54) 1783-0209 Vasily Zhukovsky* Russian poet/a leading figure in Russian literature - Mishenskoe, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire (1852/69) 1783-0308 Hannah Van Buren* (b Hoes) wife of Martin Van Buren - Kinderhook, NY USA (1819/35) 1783-0327 Josef Tvarjansky* military conductor/first conductor in the Guards Band in Helsinki - Goldingen, Courland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1852/69) 1783-0403 Washington Irving* writer/historian/diplomat - New York City, NY USA (1859/76) 1783-0527 John Crawfurd* physician/ colonial administrator/last British Resident of Singapore - Islay, Argyll, Scotland (1868/84) 1783-0529 Benedetto Pistrucci* gem-engraver/ medallist/coin engraver - Rome, Papal States (1855/72) 1783-0624 Johann Heinrich von Thünen* German economist - Wangerland, Friesland (1850/67) 1783-0724 Símon Bolívar* military and political leader – Caracas, Venezuela, Spanish Empire (1830/47) 1783-0807 Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom* the 15th and last child of King George III - Royal Lodge, Windsor, England (1810/27) 1783-0810 1783-0826 Federigo Zuccari* Italian astronomer - Isola di Sora, Terra di Lavoro (1817/34) 1783-0917 Nadezhda Durova* first known female officer (in disguise) in the Russian military/autobiographer - Kiev, Russian Empire (1866/82) 1783-0917 Samuel Prout* watercolor architectural painter - Plymouth, England (1852/68) 1783-0927 Edward Ellice* merchant/active in Manitoba/politician - London, England (1863/79) 1783-1013 Frans Fredrik Sedmigradsky* painter/art teacher active in Finland/philanthropist - Stockholm, Sweden (1855/71) 1783-1031 Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner* chemist/natural scientist - Greifenberg in Pommern, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1857/73) 1783-1210 María Bibiana Benítez* poet/playwright – Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (1873 or 1875) 1783-1214 Fredrik Wilhelm Pipping* librarian/senator - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1868/84) 1783-0 1783-0 1783-0 Updated 2025-0128 Helsinki Search for another year here