Mar 22 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state we really should have claimed it!

Mar 30 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath

Mar 07 Continental Navy frigate Randolph (32 guns) engages HMS Yarmouth (64). Randolph explodes and sinks with the loss of all but 4 men.

Mar 15 Nootka Sound, BC Captain James Cook reaches the west coast of Vancouver Island with his ships Resolution and Discovery, on the way to search for a North West Passage from the Pacific; names the site Friendly Cove after a warm reception from local Nootka people

Mar 07 Captain James Cook sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay

Mar 15 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook

Aug 09 Capt Cook passes through Bering Strait

Aug 31 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution

Feb 05 Articles of Confederation ratified by first state, South Carolina

Feb 06 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris (First US treaty). England immediately declares war on France.

Feb 11 On this day in 1778, some 300 people visit Voltaire following his return to Paris. Voltaire had been in exile for 28 years

Feb 06 England declares war on France

Feb 23 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge

Feb 06 France officially recognizes the new nation known as the United States of America.

Feb 28 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves

Feb 14 The Star and Stripes (U.S. flag) makes its first appearance at a foreign port, flying aboard the ship Ranger, as it arrives in France.

Apr 22 Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger led landing party raid on Whitehaven, England

Apr 08 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"

Apr 17 Sloop-in-war Ranger captures British brig

Apr 01 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"

Nov 11 Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre

Nov 26 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

Jul 08 Allied French fleet under Comte d'Estaing arrives in America.

Jul 03 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa

Jun 06 The birth of George (Beau) Brummell, Fashion leader

Jun 24 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia

Jun 28 Battle of Monmouth, NJ

Jun 18 American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.

Jun 19 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge

Jun 28 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots

Jan 18 HMS Supply, first ship of Britain's "First Fleet" to Australia, reaches Botany Bay (Sydney).

Jan 20 The first American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge MA

Jan 18 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)

Jan 18 Captain Cook discovers what is now called the Hawiian Islands

Jan 27 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris

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