1983

1983 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1983; MCMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2736
Armenian calendar	1432; ԹՎ ՌՆԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6733
Bahá'í 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); 4679 or 4619; — to —; 癸亥年 (Water Pig); 4680 or 4620
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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1980 1981 1982 – 1983 – 1984 1985 1986

1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade

Events

January – June

January 3 – Kilauea on the island of Hawaii begins erupting.
February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires hit Victoria and South Australia.
February 28 – The TV Show, M*A*S*H ends with 125 million people watching the last show.
April 3 – In Mexico, the 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins, it ends five weeks later on May 1.
April 4 – The Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6.
April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament
April 13 – Minnesota's largest retailer Target Corporation expands into California, opening 11 stores.^[1]
April 18
- The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.
- Channel broadcasting is founded by the Disney Channel.
April 22 – A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia.
April 25 – Cold War: Manchester, Maine, U.S., 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 1 – Jack Catain Jr., an American businessman, marries his third and final wife, Phyllis Sherwood, an American performer, singer and actress who is the widow of Bobby Sherwood, an actor, in Los Angeles, California.
May 6 – The fake Hitler Diaries are published by Stern magazine.
May 26 – An earthquake and tsunami hits Honshu, Japan, killing 104 people.
June 9 – In the UK, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party scores a landslide election victory over Michael Foot's Labour Party.
June 18 – Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

July – December

July 1 – A North Korean Ilyushin II-62 jet crashes in Guinea-Bissau.
August 4 – Thomas Sankara takes control in Upper Volta, which he renames Burkina Faso exactly a year later.
August 21 – Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated.
September 1 – Korean Airlines Flight 007 is shot down by the Soviet Union, after it passed over Sakhalin Island, as it had come off-course. All 269 people on board are killed.
September 19 – St. Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent nation.
September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on net.unix wizards and net.usoftnewsgroups.
October 19 – Grenadan prime minister Maurice Bishop, and 40 other people are assassinated in a coup.
November 11 – Ronald Reagan addressed the Japanese Diet (national legislature).
November 25- The Great Man Called Suman Was Born.....In Kolkata, Westbengal, India.
December 10 – Military rule ends in Argentina.
December 31 – Brunei becomes independent.