1775 AD to 1788 AD

1775 - 1779 AD

Cossack Rebellion leader, Yemelyan Pugachev is executed on January 21, 1775 AD. The outbreak of the American War of Independence (or American Revolutionary War) on April 19, 1775 AD. The Second Continental Congress is established on May 10, 1775 AD. George Washington is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775 AD. Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume dies on August 25, 1776 AD. The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted on June 12, 1776 AD. The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted on July 4, 1776 AD. The Continental Army decisively defeats the British under the command of General John Burgoyne in the Battles of Saratoga on October 17, 1777 AD. Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician, Carl von Linne dies on January 10, 1778 AD. French writer, essayist and philosopher Voltaire dies on May 30, 1778 AD. Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies on July 2, 1778 AD. The War of the Bavarian Succession 1778-1779 AD. English explorer James Cook is killed by the Hawaiians on February 14, 1779 AD. The Treaty of Teschen signed on May 13, 1779 AD, ends the War of the Bavarian Succession between Austria and Prussia. French painter Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin dies on December 6, 1779 AD.

1780 - 1784 AD

The League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russian Empress Catherine II the Great on March 11, 1780 AD. Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa dies on November 29, 1780 AD. The combined American-French forces under the command of George Washington decisively the British in the Battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781 AD. Catherine II the Great annexes Crimea on April 8, 1783 AD. The first public demonstration of a balloon by the Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne on June 5, 1783 AD. The Treaty of Paris signed on September 3, 1783 AD, ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America. French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot dies on July 31, 1784 AD. English poet, essayist, biographer and moralist, Samuel Johnson dies on December 13, 1784 AD.

1785 - 1788 AD

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn dies on January 4, 1776 AD. Frederick II of Prussia dies on August 17, 1786 AD. The United States Constitution is adopted by Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787 AD. Admiral Arthur Phillip brings the first convicts to Australia on January 26, 1788 AD. The Russo-Swedish War 1788-1790 AD. Charles III of Spain is succeeded by his second-born son Charles IV on December 14, 1788 AD.