January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
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