The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783



  • 1782 - Preliminary Articles of Peace : November 30


  • Hunter Miller's Notes


  • Note Regarding Ratification


  • Note Regarding the Separate Article


  • Note Regarding the Proclamation


  • 1783 - Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities : January 20


  • Hunter Miller's Notes


  • Note Regarding the Agreements of January 20, 1783


  • Note Regarding the Proclamation


  • 1783 - Declaration Signed in Paris by the American Commissioners : February 20


  • 1783 - Proclamation Declaring the Cesssation of Arms : April 11


  • 1783 - Paris Peace Treaty : September 3


  • 1784 - Proclamation of January 14


  • 1784 - Ratification January 14


  • 1784 - Proclamation of Congress January 14


  • 1784 - Ratification by Great Britain April 9


  • Hunter Miller's Notes


  • Note Regarding the Alternat


  • 1796 - George Washington - Eighth Annual Message; December 7


  • See the Discussion of the Treaty in Jefferson's Autobiography


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