1983

1983 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1983; MCMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2736
Armenian calendar	1432; ԹՎ ՌՆԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6733
Baháʼí calendar	139–140
Balinese saka calendar	1904–1905
Bengali calendar	1390
Berber calendar	2933
British Regnal year	31 Eliz. 2 – 32 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2527
Burmese calendar	1345
Byzantine calendar	7491–7492
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog); 4680 or 4473; — to —; 癸亥年 (Water Pig); 4681 or 4474
Coptic calendar	1699–1700
Discordian calendar	3149
Ethiopian calendar	1975–1976
Hebrew calendar	5743–5744
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2039–2040
- Shaka Samvat	1904–1905
- Kali Yuga	5083–5084
Holocene calendar	11983
Igbo calendar	983–984
Iranian calendar	1361–1362
Islamic calendar	1403–1404
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 58; (昭和５８年)
Javanese calendar	1915–1916
Juche calendar	72
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4316
Minguo calendar	ROC 72; 民國72年
Nanakshahi calendar	515
Thai solar calendar	2526
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年; (male Water-Dog); 2109 or 1728 or 956; — to —; 阴水猪年; (female Water-Pig); 2110 or 1729 or 957
Unix time	410227200 – 441763199

1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Years:
1980 1981 1982 - 1983 - 1984 1985 1986

Decades:
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Events

January

January 1 - Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor
January 1 - the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
January 1 - compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK.
January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison
January 19 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia.
January 19 - The Apple Lisa personal computer is announced.
January 22 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
January 24 - 25 members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro
January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.

February

February 3 - Australian P.M Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for a double dissolution election for the March 5, on that day Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as federal ALP leader
February 7 - Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of Iraq.
February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
February 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
February 24 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
February 28 - Over 100 million television viewers tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H on CBS making it the most watched television show in history at the time.

March

March 1 - Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain
March 1 - Swatch introduce their first timepieces
March 1 - Duran Duran's album Rio goes gold
March 5 - Bob Hawke Elected Australian P.M
March 8 - IBM releases the IBM PC XT
March 8 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
March 11 - Hawke Ministry sworn in, Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader
March 23 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
March 25 - Pop singer Michael Jackson performs his Moonwalk dance maneuver for the first time during his performance of Billie Jean on the Motown 25 TV special, which would air nationally on NBC on May 16.

April

April 7 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
April 11 National Economic Summit held In Canberra
April 15 - American Public Radio founded; changes its name to the current Public Radio International in 1994
April 18 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
April 22 - Soviet 1st Embassy official Valery Ivanov Expelled For alleged Spying (Aus)
April 25 - Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

May

May 6 - Stern magazine publishes "Hitler Diaries" (later found to be forgeries).
May 14 - Justin King was born.
May 16 - London police begin the use of wheel clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
May 16 NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down in response to alligations rasied by ABC program Four Corners That he Attempted to influence the NSW Majestry
May 17 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

June

Shipbreaking begins on the beach at Alang in Gujarat.
June 13 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
June 18 - Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
June 27 - The Internet Domain Name System was invented by Paul Mockapetris.
June 27 - The conception of the MSX Home Computer System.

July

July 1 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
july 1 High Court Blocks construction of the Franklin Dam In Tasmania
July 7 - Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union.
July 20 - Government of Poland announces end of the martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba.
July 28 New South Wales premier Neville Wran exonerated by Street Royal Commision over claims raised by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) program Four Corners which claimed,he attempted to influence the NSW majestry

August

August 4 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta.
August 18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
August 24 - Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson fire
August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila.

September

September 1 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
September 6 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace
September 23 - Mass outbreak in Maze prison - 38 prisoners hijack a lorry and crash out of the gate - one guard dead, 5 injured. 19 of the prisoners are later apprehended.
September 23 - Barbara Turnbull, a Canadian 18 year old girl, was shot in the neck and became paralyzed for life during a store robbery in Mississauga, Canada.
September 23 - Armand Jose, was born.
September 25 - September 26 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
Septembetr 26 - Australia wins the America's Cup ending the New York Yacht club's 132 year domination of the race

October

October 2 - Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
October 4 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
October 7 - Plan to abolish Greater London Council announced.
October 12 - Japan's ex Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
October 19 - Maurice Bishop, the President of Grenada, and 40 others are shot in a military coup
October 23 - A suicide truck-bombing destroys the United States Marine Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 US servicemen.
October 24 - Arthur Hutchinson kills three members of Laitner family and rape their daughter in the Sheffield suburb of Dore.
October 25 - United States invades Grenada.
October 27 - Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Agca in prison to forgive him. Ali Agca is a Turkish gunman, who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
October 30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

November

November 2 - Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, United States President Ronald Wilson Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
November 13 - The first US cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
November 15 - The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
November 16 - A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
November 17 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
November 26 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold was ever recovered, and only two men were convicted of the crime.
November 30 ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) agents bungle a training exercise on the Melbourne Sheraton
Microsoft Word is first released.

December

December 9 - The Australian Dollar is Floated, By Federal treasuer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative was taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
December 10 - Gary Noble was born in Preston Hospital, North Shields. Which is in the North-East of England.
December 17 - A fire at a discotheque in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
December 17 - IRA car bomb kills six Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
December 31 - Brunei gains independence from United Kingdom.
December 31 - Two bombs explode in Marseilles. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. Other at Marseilles station kills 2 and injures 34.

Unknown dates

Democratic reform in power in Argentina.
McDonald's introduces the McNugget
Roxanne Pulitzer divorces Herbert Pulitzer
Gerard Debreu wins the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award
Northern Territory Decriminilizes Homosexual Acts Between Consenting Adults
Atari releases the game E.T. for the Atari 2600. It is considered the Worst Video Game of All Time.