1784

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

Years: 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 - 1784 - 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
January 14 - The U.S. Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War
February 28 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church
The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania

Year in topic

Births

January 28 - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
October 19 - John McLoughlin, Fur Merchant
November 24 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.

Deaths

Junipero Serra - priest
September 8 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer

Monarchs/Presidents

China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)