April 18 » American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
May 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
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