Major Events
- Mar 10 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
- Mar 15 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy, preventing the threatened Coup d'état
- Apr 11 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War after the Continental Congress proclaims the "Cessation of Arms" against His Britannic Majesty [1]
- Apr 18 American Revolution: George Washington issues General Orders announcing the end of hostilities with Britain, giving thanks to the Almighty, and offering congratulations and authorizing an extra ration of alcohol to the troops to celebrate [1]
- Jun 8 Laki volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption, killing 10,000 and causing widespread famines throughout Asia and Europe
- Sep 3 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America
- Nov 25 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States
- Dec 19 William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister at age 24
- Dec 23 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress
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- Jan 3 Future US Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall (27) weds Mary Willis Ambler (16) at his cousin's home in Hanover County, Virginia, until her death in 1831
- May 8 American seamstress Betsy Ross (31) weds (for the 3rd time) John Claypoole at Christ Church
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