April 18 –Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), is included in a resolution of theCongress of the Confederation (this is later adopted in the 1787 Constitution).
June 8 – ThevolcanoLaki inIceland begins an 8-month eruption, starting the chain of natural disasters known as theMóðuharðindin, killing tens of thousands throughout Europe, including up to 33% of Iceland's population, and causing widespread famine. It has been described as one of "the greatest environmental catastrophes inEuropean history".[5]
August 4 –Mount Asama, the most activevolcano inJapan, begins a climactic eruption, killing roughly 1,400 people directly and exacerbating a famine, resulting in another 20,000 deaths (Tenmei eruption).
September 3 –Peace of Paris: A treaty between the United States and Great Britain is signed in Paris, formally ending theAmerican Revolutionary War, in which Britain recognizes the independence of the United States; and treaties are signed between Britain, France, and Spain atVersailles, ending hostilities with the Franco-Spanish Alliance.
November 27 – English rectorJohn Michell concludes that some stars might have enough gravity force to prevent light escaping from them, so he calls them "dark stars".
December 31 –Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of aparachute descent, by jumping from the tower of theMontpellier Observatory in France, using his rigid-framed model, which he intends as a form of fire escape.
Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa, the Emir of Zubarah conquers and rules Bahrain. Shaikh Ahmed restores Arab independence and sovereignty over Bahrain and makes the islands his summer residence.
^Cobbett, William, ed. (1814).The Parliamentary History of England: From the Earliest Period to Year 1803, Vol.XXIII: The Parliamentary Debates, 10 May 1782 to 1 December 1783. London: T. C. Hansard. pp. 346–354.
^Laws of the United States of America; from the 4th of March, 1789, to the 4th of March, 1815, Vol.1. Weightman. 1815. p. 708.
^abcHarper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing andWoodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
^Klerkäng, Anne (1958).Sweden – America's First Friend.Örebro.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Includes fascimile reproduction of treaty text.
^Montefiore, Arthur (1902).Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta. New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Canada: Fleming H. Revell Company. pp. 9–10.OCLC155604573.; re-printed 2015 by Facsimile Publisher and distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi, India.
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