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1783 |
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| South America & Caribbean: Treaty of Paris gives Florida to Spain. British and French possessions in the West Indies lost in war are returned to previous nation. | |||||||||||
| North America:Congress meets in Annapolis to begin administration of the new nation. Maryland ends importation of slaves. Scrip certificates for land west of the Appalachians issued to veterans. Spelling book by Noah Webster. Society of the Cincinnati formed. | |||||||||||
| Europe: British Whig leader Charles James Fox leads parliament to end war, then resigns to be replaced by William Pitt, the Younger. Treaty of Paris in September ends American war for independence. Seige of Gibralter ends. Balloonists ascend in France Painters Gainsborough and Jacques Louis David. Mozart. First works of Beethoven. William Blake. | |||||||||||
January 1783
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Francisco Le Breton Segundo - Juan Ventura Morales Sindico Procurador General Francisco Bernardy Mayordomo de Proprios Francisco Blanche. Andres Almonester is succeeded as a Cabildo escribano by Rafael Perdomo. |
February 1783
February and March 1783 Acting governor Miro sends two detachments of soldiers to apprehend numerous fugitive slaves. They caught 43 slaves and forced others to return to their owners. |
March 1783
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April 1783
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May 1783
May 16, 1783 The post of alcalde mayor provincial is inherited by Luis Toutant Beauregard. The post has been vacant since the death of Santiago Beauregard in November 1779. Luis Toutant Beauregard will die on June 2, 1792 and again the post remains vacant until 1798. |
June 1783
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July 1783
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August 1783
August 15, 1784 - William Jones and Alexander Greydon, Anglo-Americans, are executed before a New Orleans public for a counterfeit operation in Natchez. |
September 1783
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October 1783
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November 1783
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December 1783
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| Estaban Rodriguez Miro rebukes the Cabildo for its attitude of injustice and ingratitude in regard to reconstruction of Charity Hospital by Almonester. He also refutes the council’s authority regarding the Hospital and its administration. Almonester made very few friends in the French Creole community for his philanthropy. | During 1783 and 1784 the military operations are used to diminish the problem of runaway slaves (maroons) by destroying make-shift settlements and rounding up large numbers of them. | The Treaty of Paris gives Florida, including Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, to Spain. | New Orleans is garrisoned by two infantry battalions from 1783 until late in the 1780s. Each battalion has about 600 men | Governor Miro complains to acting Captain General Jose de Ezpeleta about not having enough musicians in the regiment because many had left with the troops withdrawn to Cuba. He asks for clarinetists, trumpeters and a maestro. |
François Valle Armand Beauvais |
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