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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]]).
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== Events of 1784 ==
===January - June===
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* [[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]] – [[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===
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* [[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==
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* [[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]])
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==Deaths==
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*[[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]])
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*[[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]])
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*[[Le Quy Don]], Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. [[1726]])
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