1784

Year 1784 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * - the agree to  annexation of the  in the.


 * - The ratifies the  with  to end the.


 * – dies of  in.




 * - charters the.


 * - is the first woman to ride in a balloon.

July - December

 * - Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan: begins.
 * - creates the colony of.
 * - establishes a  at.
 * -  was established.
 * - in USA officially formed at so-called "Christmas Conference" led by  and.

Undated

 * of the authorizes land grants in.
 * The incorporates the town of Morgansborough, named for .  The town is designated as the county seat for,  and is subsequently renamed "Morgantown" and later shortened to become.
 * The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King, to.
 * The famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation.
 * tries in vain to persuade the to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight.
 * invents.
 * pioneers.
 * receives its first bales of imported.
 * suspends the  because of a  in.
 * Huge  hits.
 * was isolated.
 * pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing 1:n as (n(n+1))/2, at the age of seven.

Births

 * -, Marshal of France (d. )
 * -, mother of and Sarah Lincoln (d.)
 * -, (d. )
 * -, French philosopher and mathematician (d. )
 * -, German violinist and composer (d. )
 * -, Prussian field marshal (d. )


 * -, German mathematician and astronomer (d. )
 * -, Russian general and poet (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * -, and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
 * -, Canadian fur trader (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, English painter (d. )
 * -, 12th (d. )

Unknown dates

 * (none)


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Irish convent founder (b. )
 * -, Swiss naturalist (b. )
 * -, American president of the Continental Congress (b. )
 * -, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. )


 * -, German composer (b. )
 * -, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. )
 * -, Italian musician (b. )
 * -, Scottish painter (b. )
 * -, Irish-born painter (b. )
 * -, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. )
 * -, French astronomer (b. )
 * -, American religious leader (b. )
 * -, English classical scholar (b. )
 * -, English writer and lexicographer (b. )
 * -, Japanese poet and painter (b. )
 * -, American revolutionary leader (b. )

Unknown dates

 * , Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. )


 * See also .