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Events * February 3 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. * February 4 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America. * May 18 - Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada- First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown. * July 16 - Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced. * September 3 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war. * Montgolfiers demonstrate the World's first hot air balloon in Annonay, France; * City of Sevastopol founded; * United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States; * Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilites between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England. Births * January 23 - Stendhal, writer * March 8 - Hannah Van Buren, First Lady * April 3 - Washington Irving, American author * April 10 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France. Deaths * October 29 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician Monarchs/Presidents * 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)
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