Mar 05 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno

Aug 27 The first hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude

Sep 03 Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US Revolutionary War)

Sep 03 The American 'War of Independence' comes to an end, when Britain signs a treaty in Paris

Feb 04 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)

Feb 04 England agrees to end hostilities against the US.

Feb 01 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex

Feb 04 England officially proclaims an end to hostilities in America

Feb 04 In Calabria, Italy an earthquate casued 50,000 deaths. One of the world's most destructive earthquakes. A series of six strong earthquakes, occurring over a two-month period, caused massive destruction

Feb 05 Sweden recognizes the United States as an independent country.

Feb 03 Spain recognizes the independent country calling itself the United States of America.

Feb 05 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000

Apr 03 Sweden and US sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce

Apr 03 The birth of Washington Irving, American author

Apr 19 George Washington proclaims end of hostilities

Apr 11 Congress declares end of war with Great Britain

Nov 21 Pilstre de Rozier &Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight

Nov 25 Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US

Nov 30 In New Jersey a 5.3 earthquake was the largest historical earthquake in the state

Nov 03 Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded

Nov 21 A Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, 500ft above Paris

Nov 02 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army

Dec 01 Charles and M.N. Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon

Dec 22 Washington resigns his military commission

Dec 23 Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief

Dec 04 General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York NY

May 30 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in US

May 04 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus

Jul 24 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia

Jun 08 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption

Jun 04 Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned)

Jun 05 Brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air baloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France

Jun 05 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight

Jan 23 The birth of Marie Henri Beyle de Stendahl, French writer

Jan 20 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War

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