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Events from the year1778 in the United States.

• President of theSecond Continental Congress:Henry Laurens (until December 10),John Jay (starting December 10)

• January 18 – The third Pacific expedition ofCapt.James Cook, with shipsHMSResolution andHMSDiscovery, first viewO'ahu thenKaua'i in theHawaiian Islands, which he names theSandwich Islands.
• February 5 –South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify theArticles of Confederation.
• February 6 –American Revolutionary War: In Paris theTreaty of Alliance and theTreaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official recognition of the new republic.
• February 23 –American Revolutionary War:Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrives atValley Forge,Pennsylvania and begins to train the American troops.
• March 18 – American Revolutionary War –Battle of Quinton's Bridge

• May 1 – American Revolutionary War –Battle of Crooked Billet
• May 17 – American Revolutionary War –Battle of Thomas Creek
• May 20 – American Revolutionary War –Battle of Barren Hill
• May 30 –Benedict Arnold signs U.S.oath of allegiance atValley Forge.^[1]
• June 24 – Atotal solar eclipse takes place across parts of the U.S. fromTexas toVirginia.
• June 28 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Monmouth:George Washington'sContinental Army battles the British generalSir Henry Clinton's army to a draw nearMonmouth,New Jersey.

• July 3 –American Revolutionary War: theBattle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, takes place nearWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending in a terrible defeat for the Americans.
• July 4 –American Revolutionary War:George Rogers Clark takes Kaskaskia.
• July 27 –American Revolution –First Battle of Ushant:British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
• August 29 –American Revolutionary War: TheBattle of Rhode Island takes place when theContinental Army attempts to retakeAquidneck Island from the British.
• September – TheMassachusetts Banishment Act, providing punishment forLoyalists, is passed.
• September 17 – TheTreaty of Fort Pitt is signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and aNative American tribe (theLenape or Delaware).
• September 19 – TheContinental Congress passes the firstbudget of the United States.

• October 6 – American Revolutionary War –Battle of Chestnut Neck
• November 11 –American Revolutionary War:Cherry Valley massacre – British forces and their Iroquois allies attack a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
• November 26 – In theHawaiian Islands,Capt.James Cook becomes the first European to land onMaui.
• November 30 –American Revolutionary War: Continental Army in winter quarters atMiddlebrook Cantonment, New Jersey.

• The firstsettlement is made in the area of what is nowLouisville, Kentucky by 13 families underColonelGeorge Rogers Clark.
• Phillips Academy, a prestigious secondary boarding school in the United States, is founded by Samuel Phillips Jr.
• The term "thoroughbred" is first used in the United States in an advertisement in aKentuckygazette to describe aNew Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.

• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
• Slavery in the United States

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• January 6 –Thomas Lincoln, farmer and father ofPresidentAbraham Lincoln (died1851)
• February 22 –Rembrandt Peale, artist and museum keeper (died1860)
• April 11 –John Johnson, early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement in Ohio (died1843)
• April 27 –Gideon Lee, politician (died1841)
• May 3 –David Wilder, Jr., politician (died1866)
• May 15 –Enoch Fenwick, Jesuit priest (died1827)
• August 1
  • John Collins Warren, magazine founder (died1856)
  • Mary Jefferson Eppes, Thomas Jefferson's younger child (died1804)
• August 2
  • Jabez Delano Hammond, politician (died1855)
  • Robert Richford Roberts, bishop (died1843)
• August 3 –Jessup Nash Couch, politician (died1821)
• August 4 –John Hunter, politician (died1852)
• August 15 –John Tanner, early Mormon leader (died1850)
• August 18 –Silas Condit, politician (died1861)
• August 26 –John Adams, United States House of Representatives member (died1854)
• August 27 –Mary Whitmer, Book of Mormon witness (died1856)

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• June 12 –Philip Livingston, merchant and statesman from New York City (born 1716)
• November 11 – 30 people in theCherry Valley massacre
• June 15 - William Henry Ferrell (born 1740) "killed by Indians in New Garden Settlement, Washington, Virginia, United States" Source: Ancestry.com

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