Events Date 1778 | History by KabAstro

Cook Finds Sandwich Islands

Jan 18 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)

Jan 20 1st American military court martial trial begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jan 27 Niccolò Piccinni's tragic opera "Roland" premieres at Théâtre du Palais-Royale in Paris, France

Feb 5 Articles of Confederation ratified by 2nd state, South Carolina

Feb 6 Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance signed in Paris, between the United States and France, the first negotiated by the United States. The first established formal diplomatic and commercial relations and the second formed a defensive alliance.

Feb 10 Voltaire returns to Paris to great acclaim after an absence of 28 years

Mar 2 Nathanael Greene is appointed Quartermaster General of the Continental Army under George Washington

Mar 7 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay
Mar 13 France informs Great Britain of their Treaty of Alliance with the US; Great Britain responds with a declaration of war against France four days later
Mar 15 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain James Cook
Mar 17 Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US
Mar 22 Captain James Cook sights Cape Flattery, now in Washington state
Mar 30 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
Apr 1 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol
May 1 American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

May 5 George Washington appoints Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army

Jun 18 British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and head for New York

Jun 19 George Washington's Continental Army troops finally leave Valley Forge, their winter encampment

Jun 27 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure

Jun 28 Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton)
Jun 28 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
Jul 3 British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pennsylvania
Jul 3 Prussia declares war on Austria
Jul 8 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
Aug 3 Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
Aug 9 Captain James Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering Straits
Aug 26 First recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia by Balthasar Hacquet
Aug 31 British kill 17 Stockbridge Indians in Bronx during Revolution
Sep 4 City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with American rebels
Sep 17 1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
Sep 19 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States
Oct 3 Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska
Nov 11 British Soldiers and Loyalists, allied with Iroquois and Seneca raiders, slaughter 40 in the "Cherry Valley Massacre" in central New York
Nov 26 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
Dec 29 British troops occupy Savannah, Georgia