Mar 31 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn't.

Mar 17 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

Mar 03 US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas

Mar 02 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston

Mar 25 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington

Aug 27 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island

Aug 02 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence

Aug 01 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence

Aug 29 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester

Aug 28 Battle of Long Island

Aug 27 Americans lose to the British at the Batttle of Long Island.

Sep 09 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States"

Sep 22 American patriot, captain Nathan Hale executed for spying

Sep 10 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers

Sep 15 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution

Sep 17 Presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort

Sep 21 Great fire in NY

Apr 01 Ships carrying 1,124 United Empire Loyalists arrive at Halifax from Boston; many with the British Army; in all, 40,000 Americans remain loyal.

Apr 03 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

Apr 04 Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke, first American capture of British armed vessel

Apr 06 Sloop-of-war Ranger, frigate Queen of France and frigate Warren capture British Hibernia and 7 other vessels

Apr 12 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina

Nov 18 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ

Nov 01 San Juan Capistrano Mission founded in California

Nov 16 Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan

Dec 05 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded

Dec 25 Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians

Dec 31 Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is $0.70 a day for carpenters, $0.42 for tailors

Dec 23 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France

Dec 23 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"

Dec 19 Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay

Dec 26 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat

Dec 08 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ

Dec 31 Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation Limit is $0.70 a day for carpenters, $0.42 for tailors

May 12 Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns

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