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September 3: Great Britain recognizes independence of the American nation, signs Treaty of Paris.
1783 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1783
MDCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita 2536
Armenian calendar 1232
ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ
Assyrian calendar 6533
Balinese saka calendar 1704–1705
Bengali calendar 1190
Berber calendar 2733
British Regnal year 23  Geo. 3   24  Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2327
Burmese calendar 1145
Byzantine calendar 7291–7292
Chinese calendar 壬寅年 (Water  Tiger)
4480 or 4273
     to 
癸卯年 (Water  Rabbit)
4481 or 4274
Coptic calendar 1499–1500
Discordian calendar 2949
Ethiopian calendar 1775–1776
Hebrew calendar 5543–5544
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1839–1840
 - Shaka Samvat 1704–1705
 - Kali Yuga 4883–4884
Holocene calendar 11783
Igbo calendar 783–784
Iranian calendar 1161–1162
Islamic calendar 1197–1198
Japanese calendar Tenmei 3
(天明3年)
Javanese calendar 1708–1710
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4116
Minguo calendar 129 before ROC
民前129年
Nanakshahi calendar 315
Thai solar calendar 2325–2326
Tibetan calendar 阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
1909 or 1528 or 756
     to 
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
1910 or 1529 or 757

1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar  and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1783rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 783rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1783, the Gregorian calendar was 11days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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December 23: General George Washington Resigning His Commission

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Washington Irving
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John Crawfurd
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Simón Bolívar

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Events from the year 1778 in the United States.

Events from the year 1782 in the United States

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1783 in the United States</span> List of events

Events from the year 1783 in the United States. The American Revolution officially ended with the Treaty of Paris.

The Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States and Sweden, officially A treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of North America, was a treaty signed on April 3, 1783 in Paris, France between the United States and the Kingdom of Sweden. The treaty officially established commercial relations between these two nations and was signed during the American Revolutionary War.

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