President:
Pres: (Continental Congress) Samuel Huntington
Pres: (Continental Congress) Thomas McKean
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) John Hanson
General
- Law: Articles of Confederation ratified by all states
- Natives: Dietz Massacre as family in New York attacked by Natives
- Revolution: British under Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown to US under Washington
Treaty of Paris ends war
East
- General: Storm sinks British ships on New England coast
- Connecticut: Americans victorious at Guilford
"Blue Laws" first printed in New Haven
South
- General: Evacuation of Charleston and Savannah
Tide turns in favor of Colonists in South
- North Carolina: British defeated at Cowpens and Eutaw
- Virginia: Lord Cornwallis overtaken by Washington
Lafayette takes command of forces in VA and sails for France
West and Pacific
- California: Los Angeles settled by Franciscan monks and others - 44 with 26 African-Americans