Jun 1783: The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon) in Annonay, France.
8 Jun 1783: The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an 8-month eruption which kills 9,350 people and starts a 7-year famine. The eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure.
June: French balloon montgolfière.Effects of the Laki volcano were felt all over Europe. New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of "the greatest environmental catastrophies in European History".
3 Sep 1783: American Revolutionary War - Treaty of Paris: A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
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1784
1784: John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1784: The Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
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1785
1785: Coal gas is first used for illumination
1785: The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.
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1786
1786: The first ship leaves Britain for Botany Bay, Australia: 820 out of 1,138 aboard are convicts
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1787
May 1787: Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with 11 ships packed with 1,000 convicts amd their jailers to establish a penal colony in Australia.
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1788
1788: Construction begins on the Brandenburger Tor in Berlijn.
26 Jan 1788: Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Arthur Phillip, land in what will become Sydney, Australia. Great Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
1783 - 1788 (~ 4 years)
