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| 1778 |
| | | Francis Hopkinson's popular ballad The Battle of the Kegs describes an ingenious American threat to the British navy | |
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| 1779 |
| | | U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, fights H.M.S. Serapis near England's Flamborough Head | |
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| 1780 |
| | | The capture of British go-between John André yields proof that US general Benedict Arnold is in the pay of the British | |
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| 1780 |
| | | British army officer John André is executed in New York as a spy | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Maryland, ratifies the Articles of Confederation (the last state to do so), completing 'the Confederation of the United States' | |
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| 1781 |
| | | The Bank of North America is established by the Continental Congress to lend money to the fledgling Revolutionary government | |
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| 1781 |
| | | US poet Philip Freneau describes in The British Prison Ship the horrors of his experiences as a prisoner | |
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| 1781 |
| | | The British general Charles Cornwallis, isolated at Yorktown, is forced to surrender in the final engagement of the Revolutionary War | |
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| 1783 |
| | | In the Treaty of Paris, negotiated by Adams, Franklin and Jay, the British government recognizes US independence | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Controversial Alien and Sedition Acts are passed by the US Congress as emergency measures in response to the perceived threat of war with France | |
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