On This Day

<<

What Happened in March 1783

>>

Historical Events

  • Mar 5 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
  • Mar 10 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral

Newburgh Conspiracy

Mar 15 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy, preventing the threatened Coup d'état

First US President George Washington
Events in 1783

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 8 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, German Protestant clergyman, composer, music theorist, and poet, born in Sulza, Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1846)
  • Mar 8 Hannah Hoes, future wife of U.S. President Martin Van Buren (1837-41), born in Kinderhook, New York (d. 1819)
  • Mar 26 Johann Baptist Weigl, German composer and clergyman, born in Hahnbach, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1852)
Born in 1783

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 23 Gaspard Fritz, Swiss composer and violinist, dies at 67
  • Mar 30 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and physician, dies at 64


What Happened in 1783

Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.