1784 Events January–March January 6 - The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea , in the Treaty of Constantinople. January 14 - The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War , with the signature of President of Congress Thomas Mifflin . January 15 - Henry Cavendish's paper to the Royal Society of London , Experiments on Air , reveals the composition of water . February 24 - The Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam begins. February 28 - John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States . March 1 - The Confederation Congress accepts Virginia's cession of all rights to the Northwest Territory and to Kentucky. March 22 - The Emerald Buddha is installed at the Wat Phra Kaew , on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok .April–June April 23 - The Congress of the Confederation passes the Ordinance of Governance to set guidelines for adding to the original 13 states in the United States of America . April 27 - The Marriage of Figaro , written by playwright Pierre Beaumarchais as a sequel to The Barber of Seville , premieres at the Comédie-Française in Paris . May 12 - The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3 the previous year , comes into effect. May 20 - A treaty is signed in Paris between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic , formally ending the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War . June 4 - Elizabeth Thible is the first woman to ascend in a hot air balloon , at Lyon , France .July–September July 9 - The Bank of New York opens as the first in New York state and continues to operate under that name for almost 223 years until being acquired by Mellon Financial and becoming BNY Mellon . July 29 - The United States and the Kingdom of France sign a convention for establishing diplomatic relations and "determining the functions and prerogatives of their respective consuls, vice consuls, agents, and commissaries". August 13 - The East India Company Act, sponsored by British Prime Minister William Pitt is given royal assent. August 15 - Cardinal de Rohan is called before the French court to account for his actions, in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace . August 16 - Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick . September 19 - In France, the Robert brothers and a Mr. Collin-Hullin become the first people to fly more than 100 km or 100 miles in the air, lifting off from Paris and landing 6 hours and 40 minutes later near Bethune after a journey of. September 22 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska .October–December October 8 - "Kettle War", a 1-day action on the Scheldt in which a ship of the Dutch Republic repels forces of the Holy Roman Empire . October 22 - North Carolina rescinds its resolution ceding its western territory to the United States, after earlier giving Congress two years to accept the terms. October 31-December 14 - The Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan in Transylvania causes Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor to suspend the Hungarian Constitution . November 26 - The Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States is established. November 27 - The phenomenon of black holes is first posited in a paper by John Michell , in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . November 30 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia is selected as the new President of the Confederation Congress . December - Immanuel Kant's essay "" is published. December 25 - The Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States is officially formed at the "Christmas Conference", led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury .Date unknown The India Act requires that the governor general be chosen from outside the British East India Company , and makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision. Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton . King Carlos III of the Spanish Empire authorizes land grants in Alta California . Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is named first president of the newly created Russian Academy . The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Morgansborough, named for Daniel Morgan . The town is designated as the county seat for Burke County, North Carolina and is subsequently renamed Morgantown , later shortened to Morganton . The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King George III of Great Britain , to Kinston . The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation. A huge locust swarm hits South Africa . Foundation of the first theater in Estonia, the Tallinna saksa teater . Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles . Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight. Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry. Cholesterol is isolated. Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing at the age of 7. Madame du Coudray , pioneer of modern midwifery, retires. Births January 17 - Philippe Antoine d’Ornano , Marshal of France January 28 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom February 5 - Nancy Hanks , mother of Abraham Lincoln February 29 - Leo von Klenze , German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer March 12 - William Buckland , English geologist, paleontologist March 22 - Samuel Hunter Christie , English physicist, mathematician March 23 - Tom Molineaux , African-American boxer April 5 - Louis Spohr , German violinist, composer April 13 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel , Prussian field marshal April 24 - Peter Vivian Daniel , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States June 24 - Juan Antonio Lavalleja , Uruguayan military, political figure July 21 - Charles Baudin , French admiral July 22 - Friedrich Bessel , German mathematician, astronomer July 27 - Denis Davydov , Russian general, poet August 18 - Robert Taylor , British Radical writer, freethought advocate September 4 - William Pope Duval , first civilian governor of the Florida Territory October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain October 15 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud , Marshal of France and duke of Isly October 19 * Leigh Hunt , British critic, essayist * John McLoughlin , Canadian fur trader October 20 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom October - Sarah Biffen , armless English painter November 24 - Zachary Taylor , 12th President of the United States November 27 - August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen Deaths February 4 - Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia , Prussian princess February 27 - Count of St. Germain, French philosopher, adventurer March 26 - Thomas Bond , American physician and surgeon March 27 - Ralph Bigland , British officer of arms March 31 - Thomas Adam , Clergyman, religious writer April 26 - Nano Nagle , Irish convent founder April 29 - Agustín de Jáuregui , Spanish colonial governor May 3 - Anthony Benezet , French-born American abolitionist and educator May 10 - Antoine Court de Gébelin , French pastor May 12 - Abraham Trembley , Swiss naturalist June 8 - Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani , Croatian poet June 13 - Henry Middleton , American president of the Continental Congress June 14 - Andrzej Mokronowski , Polish general June 26 - Caesar Rodney , American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , German composer July 31 - Denis Diderot , French philosopher, encyclopedist August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian musician August 10 - Allan Ramsay , Scottish portrait-painter August 14 - Nathaniel Hone , Irish-born painter August 28 - Junípero Serra , Spanish Franciscan missionary September 1 - Jean-François Séguier , French astronomer and botanist September 4 - César-François Cassini de Thury , French astronomer September 8 - Ann Lee , American religious leader September 15 - Nicolas Bernard Lépicié , French painter November 1 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan , French polymath, author and poet November 9 - George Baylor , officer in the American Continental Army December 5 - Phillis Wheatley , first published African-American author December 13 - Samuel Johnson , English writer, lexicographer December 25 - Yosa Buson , Japanese poet, painter December 26 - Seth Warner , American revolutionary leader date unknown - Lê Quý Đôn , Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official date unknown - Raja Haji Fisabilillah , Buginese monarch of riau lingga, warrior, emperor, and government official
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