President:
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Henry Lee
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) John Hancock
General
- Finance: Commercial Treaty signed between Prussia and the US
John Adams tries to negotiate trade with England
- Land: Land Ordinance provides for frontier settlement
- Natives: Start of Northwest Indian War until 1795
treaties between US and Wyandot and Cherokee
East
- General: Delegates meet to discuss navigation of Potomac
Midwest
- General: Ohio River survey
South
- Virginia: James Madison's religious freedom act abolishes religious tests - first state to adopt religious freedom
Jefferson designs Virginia state capital
West and Pacific
- General: Europeans begin colonization of North Pacific
- Alaska: Russians settle in Aleutian Isles
Whaling base founded close to Japan