1784
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th centuryDecades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years: 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 - 1784 - 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789
Events
- January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
- January 14 - The U.S. Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War
- February 28 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church
- The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
- Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
- Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
- Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
- Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
- Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania
- January 28 - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
- October 19 - John McLoughlin, Fur Merchant
- November 24 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.
- Junipero Serra - priest
- September 8 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
- December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)\n
