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| c. 1783 |
| | | Some 40,000 Loyalists flee from British America to the previously French colonies, in particular Nova Scotia | |
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| 1783 |
| | | US lexicographer Noah Webster publishes a Spelling Book for American children that eventually will sell more than 60 million copies | |
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| 1783 |
| | | The empress Catherine the Great annexes the Crimean peninsula, giving Russia a presence in the Black Sea | |
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| 1783 |
| | | 20-year-old John Jacob Astor emigrates from Germany to America and sets up in the fur trade | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Ten days after the first human ascent in a hot-air balloon the feat is repeated, again in Paris, in a version lifted by hydrogen | |
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| 1783 |
| | | In the Treaty of Paris, negotiated by Adams, Franklin and Jay, the British government recognizes US independence | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Louis XVI watches through his telescope the first balloon flight with living passengers – a sheep, a cock and a duck | |
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| 1783 |
| | | A hot-air balloon rises from a Paris garden, carrying the first human aeronauts – Pilàtre de Rozier and the marquis d'Arlandes | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Jacques-Louis David, establishing a reputation with his severe classical paintings, is elected to the French academy | |
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| 1784 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin, irritated at needing two pairs of spectacles, commissions from a lens-grinder the first bifocals | |
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