President:
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) John Hanson
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Elias Boudinot
General
- Finance: Bank of North America established in Philadelphia
Start of American depression
- Military: George Washington creates Order of the Purple Heart
- Natives: Guadenhutten massacre as nearly 100 Lenape natives attacked in PA – Corbly Family in PA also killed
Chickasaw Peace Treaty
- Politics: US and Britain sign treaty without French knowledge
- Revolution: Thomas Grenville sent from London to Paris to open peace talks with Benjamin Franklin – preliminaries accepted by Britain and America
Due to battle on too many fronts, Britain concedes American Independence
South
- Florida: Spanish completes conquest of Florida
- Georgia: Americans recapture the state
- Kentucky: Lincoln family moves to west Kentucky