| January 6 | Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople |
| January 7 | 1st U.S. seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia |
| January 14 | Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris |
| January 26 | Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol |
| February 22 | 1st U.S. ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from New York |
| February 28 | John Wesley charters Methodist Church |
| February 29 | Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille |
| March 1 | E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain |
| April 15 | 1st balloon flight in Ireland |
| April 29 | Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna) |
| May 8 | Only known deaths by hailstones in U.S. in Winnsborough, South Carolina |
| May 11 | England and Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty |
| May 20 | England and Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris) |
| May 22 | Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy |
| May 25 | Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek |
| June 4 | Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon |
| June 9 | John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions |
| June 23 | 1st U.S. balloon flight, 13 year old Edward Warren |
| August 13 | English parliament accept India Act |
| August 23 | Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it |
| September 21 | 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser) |
| September 21 | Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser 1st success U.S. daily newspaper |
| September 22 | Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK |
| November 1 | Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents |
| December 21 | John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State |
