George Washington gave a final goodbye to his soldiers at the close of the Revolutionary War on this day in history, Dec. 4, 1783. Washington, then-commanding general of the Continental Army, rallied ...

An artist rendered this impression of the fashionable crowds watching the Marquis d'Abbans' steamboat demo in 1783. __1783: __A young French nobleman demonstrates the first successful steamboat on the ...

The sun fades away, the land sinks into the sea, the bright stars disappear from the sky, as smoke and fire destroy the world, and the flames burn the sky. - The end of the world according to the ...

In 1783, two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot air balloon, before a crowd of dignitaries in Annonay, France. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, prosperous paper manufacturers ...

On Jan. 31, 1783, William Herschel was creating a catalog of double stars when he spotted 40 Eridani B. This dim white object was part of a triple-star system, and was the first white dwarf ever ...

Born in Macon, France, on Nov. 25, 1783, Claude-Louis Mathieu showed an aptitude for mathematics from a young age. Despite his family's poverty and his father's wish for him to be a carpenter, Mathieu ...

This Saturday, the Sir Christopher Wren building is going back to the year 1783, with or without a flux capacitor. Visitors will be able to see classes, activities and merriment in a living history ...