What Happened in September 1783

Historical Events

  • Sep 3 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America
  • Sep 26 Fayette County, Pennsylvania created

Famous Birthdays

  • Sep 8 N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher, born in Udby, Zealand, Denmark (d. 1872)
  • Sep 17 Samuel Prout, British water color painter, born in Plymouth, England (d. 1852)

Agustín de Iturbide (1783-1824)

Sep 27 Mexican army general, politician and 1st emperor of Mexico, born in Valladolid, Michoacán, Mexico


Famous Deaths

  • Sep 6 Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (commedia dell'arte), dies at 72
  • Sep 18 Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar, dies at 65

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)

Sep 18 Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 76

  • Sep 27 Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)