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1783| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1783 | Austria [orchestral music] | The Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 36 (K 425), the Linz, part of No. 37 (K 444), and his Piano Concertos No. 11 (K 413) and No. 13 (K 415). He leaves his Mass in C minor (No. 18) (K 427) unfinished. | | 1783 | England [poetry] | The English poet Thomas Crabbe publishes The Village, a long poem in couplets that gives a realistic view of the harshness of rural life in East Anglia, England. | | 1783 | Germany [anti-Semitism] | The German Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn publishes Jerusalem, oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum/Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism, a plea for freedom of conscience. | | 1783 | America [food and drink] | Churchman Junipero Serra makes the first wine in America from grape cuttings brought from Spain and replanted at the California mission San Juan Capistrano. | | 1783 | England [technology] | English iron manufacturer Henry Cort develops a rolling mill with grooved rollers for making iron bars. With this machine he can produce 15 tonnes of iron bars in 12 hours, where a traditional forge hammer could only produce 1 tonne. | | 30 May 1783 | America [newspapers] | The first daily newspaper in colonial America, the Pennsylvania Evening Post, is published. | | 24 July 1783 | New Granada, Venezuela [births and deaths] | Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan soldier who liberated Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia from Spanish rule, born in Caracas, New Granada (in modern Venezuela) (–1830). | | 3 September 1783 | UK, France, Spain, America, West Indies, Africa, India [treaties] | The Peace of Paris is signed between Britain on one side and France, Spain, and America on the other, ending the American Revolution. Britain recognizes the independence of the American colonies, cedes Florida to Spain, and recovers its West Indian possessions. France recovers St Lucia, Tobago, Senegal, Gorée, and its East Indian possessions. France regains the right to fortify Dunkirk. | | 21 November 1783 | France [technology] | Using a hot-air balloon made by Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, Jean F Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes make the first human flight, in Paris, France. | | 19 December 1783 | UK [political events] | The British Tory politician William Pitt the Younger forms a government and, as chancellor of the Exchequer, is the only member of the cabinet in the House of Commons. |
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