President:
Pres: (Continental Congress) John Hancock
Pres: (Continental Congress) Henry Laurens
General
- Americana: Stars and Stripes adopted as Continental Congress flag
- Law: Articles of Confederation written
- Military: Fog causes Colonial soldiers to fire upon own troops
Lafayette's French volunteers arrive in America
German General von Steuben arrives to become inspector general of American forces
- Natives: Start of Chickamauga Wars until 1794
East
- General: Winter of Valley Forge
British advances on the Hudson halted
- Delaware: British secure control of Delaware
- New Jersey: British defeated at Princeton and Trenton by George Washington
- New York: Gen Burgoyne loses two battles at Bemis Heights and capitulates to Americans at Saratoga
Continental Congress flees to New York
- Pennsylvania: American forces defeated at Brandywine and Germantown
British troops under Howe enter Philadelphia
- Vermont: British defeated at Bennington
Slavery abolished
Republic of Vermont forms after briefly being named New Connecticut