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

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.

Oct 09 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay

Oct 18 In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"

Oct 27 A Danish fort in the Virgin Islands becomes the first foreign nation to salute the U.S. flag when it recognizes a U.S. schooner.

Oct 09 Spanish missionaries first settle in what is now San Francisco, California.

Oct 28 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ

Oct 11 Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters.

Oct 11 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British

Oct 12 British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in the Bronx

Jul 02 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"

Jul 01 First vote on the Declaration of Independence

Jul 04 American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain

Jul 04 The United States adopt the Declaration of Independence

Jul 04 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain

Jul 09 Dec of Ind read aloud to Gen Washington's troops in NY

Jul 08 The Liberty Bell Rings In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Liberty Bell rang out from the tower of the Pennsylvania's old State House, summoning citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon

Jul 06 Dec of Ind announced on front page of the "PA Evening Gazette"

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

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