May 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
July 3 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
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