Events Date 1784 | History by KabAstro

Franklin Unhappy Over Eagle

Jan 26 Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol

United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

Feb 4 1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland
Feb 22 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from NY

First US Methodist Church

Feb 28 John Wesley charters Methodist Church

Marquis de Sade to the Bastille

Feb 29 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille

Mar 5 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, is named President of the Board of Trade.

Emerald Buddha Moved

Mar 22 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand

The Emerald Buddha of Thailand, considered the palladium of the nation and one of its most sacred sites

Apr 9 Great Britain ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War

Violin Sonata No. 32

Apr 29 Premiere of Mozart's "Violin Sonata No. 32 "in B flat (K. 454) at Kärntnerthor Theater in Vienna; violinist Regina Strinasacchi, and Wolfgang Mozart on piano

Classical Musician and Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

May 8 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough, South Carolina)
May 11 Britain & Tippu Sahib of Mysore sign peace treaty
May 12 Ratified copies of the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War exchanged between US and Great Britain, in Paris
May 20 Britain & Netherlands sign peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
May 25 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
Jun 3 US army officially established by Congress of the Confederation
Jun 4 Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist
Jun 9 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
Jun 16 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
Jun 23 Edward Warren makes the 1st US balloon flight, aged just 13 years old
Aug 13 British parliament accepts East India Company Act 1784, bringing the East India Company's rule in India under the control of the British Government.
Aug 23 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
Sep 21 Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser becomes the 1st successful daily newspaper in the United States
Sep 22 Russian trappers establish a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska