1784
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Year 1784 (MDCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1784
January–June
July–December
- August 15 – Cardinal de Rohan is called before the court to account for his actions in the Queen's Necklace Affair.
- August 16 – Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick.
- September 22 – Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- November 26 – The Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States is established.
- December 25 – The Methodist Episcopal Church, USA is officially formed at the "Christmas Conference" led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.
Undated
Births
- January 17 – Philippe Antoine d’Ornano, Marshal of France (d. 1863)
- January 28 – George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
- February 5 – Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
- April 5 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (d. 1859)
- April 13 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
- July 22 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
- July 27 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
- October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
- October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
- October 19 – Leigh Hunt, British critic and essayist (d. 1859)
- October 19 – John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
- October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
- October – Sarah Biffen, English painter (d. 1850)
- November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
Deaths
- July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
- July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
- August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
- August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
- August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
- August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)
- September 4 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
- September 8 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
- December 4 – Wiseman Claget, English classical scholar (b. 1721)
- December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, First African-American to publish a book (b. 1753)
- December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
- December 25 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
- December 26 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
- date unknown – Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726)
- See also Category: 1784 deaths.