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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington defeats the British at Trenton at a psychologically important moment in the course of the war | |
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| 1777 |
| | | Congress adopts a new flag for independent America – the stars and stripes | |
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| 1777 |
| | | George Washington, heavily defeated in a battle at Brandywine, is forced to relinquish Philadelphia to the British | |
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| 1777 |
| | | Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre | |
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| 1777 |
| | | The American general Horatio Gates captures the army of General Burgoyne near Saratoga | |
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| 1777 |
| | | The US Congress agrees the final version of the Articles of Confederation, defining the terms on which states join the Union | |
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| 1778 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance, committing France to the US cause | |
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| 1778 |
| | | France, joining the American colonies in their fight against Britain, sends a large fleet across the Atlantic | |
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| 1778 |
| | | The American naval hero John Paul Jones makes successful raids around the coasts of Britain | |
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| 1778 |
| | | In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings | |
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