1784

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1781 1782 1783 - 1784 - 1785 1786 1787\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1784 in art
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\n----\nList of state leaders in 1784
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople\n*January 14 - The U.S. Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War\n* February 27 – Count of St Germain dies of pneumonia in Schleswig-Holstein\n* February 28 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church\n* August 10 - Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan - Queen's Necklace Affair begins

• The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation\n* Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight\n* Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles\n* Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry\n* Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton\n* Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania\n* Huge locust swarm in South Africa

Births

\n*January 28 - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom\n*October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain\n*October 19 - John McLoughlin, Fur Merchant\n*November 24 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.

Deaths

\n*Junipero Serra - priest\n*September 8 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader\n*December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n