1783 Birth of South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar. Slavery abolished in Massachusetts and Maryland. Montolfier brothers succeed in the first ascent in a hot air balloon. 1784 Maxon Dixon line, popularly designating the boundary dividing slave states from free states, is extended west. 1785 Birth of American naturalist and artist, John J. Audubon.
Russian charter ends peasant reforms and allows nobility to own serfs.
Anton Reicha becomes a flutist in the Bonn orchestra, joining Beethoven, who was playing in the viola section. Birth of German composer Carl Maria von Weber. Robert Burns writes his poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is performed in Vienna. Passage of the United States Constitution.