This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to

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and its people.

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

Charles III Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...

Events

* January 20 - Preliminary peace treaty signed between England and Spain * February 3 - Spain recognizes the United States of America * November 24 – Royal Cedula of Population

Births

* April 10 -

Francisco de Longa Francisco Tomás de Anchia Longa (10 April 1783 – 1831) was a Spanish general. Biography He was born in the village of Longa, Mallabia (province of Biscay). A blacksmith by trade, he and 100 men engaged the French in guerrilla warfare, attacki ...

(d. 1831 or 1842)

Notable deaths

* March 2 -

Francisco Salzillo Francisco Salzillo y Alcaraz (12 May 1707 – 2 March 1783Malgares Guerrero, José Antonio. XXII Jornadas de Patrimonio Cultural de la Región de Murcia (Spanish). 2011, p. 418. ) was a Spanish sculptor. He is the most representative Spanish ...

, sculptor (b. 1707) * June 1 -

Domingo Elizondo Domingo Elizondo (c. 1710 - died 1 June 1783, Madrid) was a Spanish soldier from Navarre who lived in the late 18th century. Information Before América, he fought in the battlefields of Italia during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48) ...

, soldier (b. 1710) {{Year in Europe, 1783 1780s in Spain Years of the 18th century in Spain