Editing 1784 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 6]] &ndash; Treaty of Constantinople: The [[Ottoman Empire]] agrees to [[Russian Empire|Russia]]'s annexation of the [[Crimean Peninsula|Crimea]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4x0QAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4x0QAAAAYAAJ/page/n193 163]|quote=treaty of constantinople 1784.|title=The Revolutions of Europe: Being an Historical View of the European Nations from the Subversion of the Roman Empire in the West to the Abdication of Napoleon|last1=Koch|first1=Christophe|last2=Schoell|first2=Maximillian Samson Friedrich|date=1839|publisher=Whittaker and Company|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; The [[Congress of the United States]] ratifies the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] with [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] to end the [[American Revolution]], with the signature of [[President of the Continental Congress|President of Congress]] [[Thomas Mifflin]].<ref name="Harper1784">''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167</ref>
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Henry Cavendish]]'s paper to the [[Royal Society]] of [[London]], ''Experiments on Air'', reveals the composition of [[water (molecule)|water]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Experiments on Air|jstor=106582|first=Henry|last=Cavendish|year=1784|journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London]]|volume=75|pages=372–384|doi=10.1098/rstl.1785.0023|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1432276|doi-access=free|bibcode=1785RSPT...75..372C}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; The [[Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam]] begins.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[John Wesley]] ordains ministers for the [[Methodist Church]] in the [[United States]].
* [[March 1]] &ndash; The Confederation Congress accepts Virginia's [[state cessions|cession of all rights to the Northwest Territory]] and to Kentucky ([[Illinois County, Virginia|Illinois County]]).<ref name="Harper1784"/>
* [[March 22]] &ndash; The [[Emerald Buddha]] is installed at the ''[[Wat Phra Kaew]]'', on the grounds of the [[Grand Palace]] in [[Bangkok]] (or in 1785).