1784 35802 225995362 2008-07-16T11:00:09Z Tuvic 299598 /* Births */ -- hoax {{year nav|{{PAGENAME}}}} {{C18YearInTopicX}} Year '''1784''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCLXXXIV]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Monday]] of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 11-day span=Mon-Fri,Tue-Sat,Wed-Sun,Thu-Mon,Fr-Tu,Sa-We,Sun-Thu --> == Events of 1784 == ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 6]] - the [[Turkey|Turks]] agree to [[Russia|Russia's]] annexation of the [[Crimea]] in the [[Treaty of Constantinople]]. * [[January 14]] - The [[Congress of the United States|US Congress]] ratifies the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] with [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] to end the [[American Revolutionary War]]. * [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Count of St Germain]] dies of [[pneumonia]] in [[Schleswig-Holstein]]. [[Image:Jwesleysitting.JPG|thumb|130px|right| '''[[February 28]]''': [[John Wesley]] charters the [[Methodist Church]].]] * [[February 28]] - [[John Wesley]] charters the [[Methodist Church]]. * [[June 4]] - [[Elisabeth Thible]] is the first woman to ride in a balloon. ===July - December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[August 10]] - Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan: [[Affair of the diamond necklace|Queen's Necklace Affair]] begins. * [[August 16]] - [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] creates the colony of [[New Brunswick]]. * [[September 22]] - [[Russia]] establishes a [[colony]] at [[Kodiak, Alaska]]. * [[November 26]] - [[Roman Catholic]] [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore|Apostolic Prefecture of the United States]] was established. * [[December 25]] - [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] in USA officially formed at so-called "Christmas Conference" led by [[Thomas Coke (Methodist)|Thomas Coke]] and [[Francis Asbury]]. ===Undated=== *[[King Carlos III]] of the [[Spanish Empire]] authorizes land grants in [[Alta California]]. * 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|Burke County]], [[North Carolina]] and is subsequently renamed "Morgantown" and later shortened to become [[Morganton, North Carolina|Morganton]]. * The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King [[George III of Great Britain]], to [[Kinston, North Carolina|Kinston]]. * The [[Japan|Japanese]] famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation. * [[Benjamin Franklin]] tries in vain to persuade the [[France|French]] to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight. * [[Benjamin Franklin]] invents [[bifocal]] [[spectacles]]. * [[Antoine Lavoisier]] pioneers [[quantitative chemistry]]. * [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] receives its first bales of imported [[United States|American]] [[cotton]]. * [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Josef II]] suspends the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Constitution]] because of a [[Revolution]] in [[Transylvania]]. * Huge [[locust]] [[swarm]] hits [[South Africa]]. * [[Cholesterol]] was isolated. * [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing 1:n as (n(n+1))/2, at the age of seven. *[[Madame du Coudray]] retires. *The [[India Act]] requires that the [[governor general]] be chosen from outside the [[British East India Company]] and it makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision. ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Tenmei]] 3 &ndash; 4}} <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 17]] - [[Philippe Antoine d’Ornano]], Marshal of France (d. [[1863]]) * [[January 20]] - [[Nancy Hanks]], mother of [[Abraham Lincoln]] and Sarah Lincoln (d.[[1818]]) * [[January 28]] - [[George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1860]]) * [[April 5]] - [[Louis Spohr]], German violinist and composer (d. [[1859]]) * [[April 13]] - [[Friedrich Graf von Wrangel]], Prussian field marshal (d. [[1877]]) * [[July 22]] - [[Friedrich Bessel]], German mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1846]]) * [[July 27]] - [[Denis Davydov]], Russian general and poet (d. [[1839]]) * [[October 13]] - King [[Ferdinand VII of Spain]] (d. [[1833]]) * [[October 15]] - [[Thomas Robert Bugeaud]], [[Marshal of France]] and duke of Isly (d. 1849) * [[October 19]] - [[John McLoughlin]], Canadian fur trader (d. [[1857]]) * [[October 20]] - [[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1865]]) * [[October]] - [[Sarah Biffen]], English painter (d. [[1850]]) * [[November 24]] - [[Zachary Taylor]], 12th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1850]]) ===Unknown dates=== <!-- BIRTHS --> * (none) : ''See also [[:Category: 1784 births]].'' ==Deaths== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[April 26]] - [[Nano Nagle]], Irish convent founder (b. [[1718]]) *[[May 12]] - [[Abraham Trembley]], Swiss naturalist (b. [[1710]]) *[[June 13]] - [[Henry Middleton]], American president of the Continental Congress (b. [[1717]]) *[[June 26]] - [[Caesar Rodney]], American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. [[1728]]) <!-- DEATHS: July-Dec. --> *[[July 1]] - [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], German composer (b. [[1710]]) *[[July 31]] - [[Denis Diderot]], French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. [[1713]]) *[[August 4]] - [[Giovanni Battista Martini]], Italian musician (b. [[1706]]) *[[August 10]] - [[Allan Ramsay (1713-1784)|Allan Ramsay]], Scottish painter (b. [[1713]]) *[[August 14]] - [[Nathaniel Hone the Elder|Nathaniel Hone]], Irish-born painter (b. [[1718]]) *[[August 28]] - [[Junípero Serra]], Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. [[1713]]) *[[September 4]] - [[César-François Cassini de Thury]], French astronomer (b. [[1714]]) *[[September 8]] - [[Ann Lee]], American religious leader (b. [[1736]]) *[[December 4]] - [[Wiseman Claget]], English classical scholar (b. [[1721]]) *[[December 13]] - [[Samuel Johnson]], English writer and lexicographer (b. [[1709]]) *[[December 25]] - [[Yosa Buson]], Japanese poet and painter (b. [[1716]]) *[[December 26]] - [[Seth Warner]], American revolutionary leader (b. [[1743]]) ===Unknown dates=== <!-- DEATHS --> *[[Le Quy Don]], Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. [[1726]]) {{commonscat}} : ''See also [[:Category: 1784 deaths]].'' 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