This Year in History:
1784
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
On this day in 1784, at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, the Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris. The document, negotiated in part by future President John Adams,…
On January 14, 1784, the Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence. In the document, which was known as the Second Treaty of Paris because the…
On February 28, 1784, John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the United States. Despite the fact that he was an Anglican, Wesley saw the need to provide church…
On this day in 1784, Delaware Patriot Caesar Rodney dies. Rodney is best remembered for his overnight ride from Dover, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to cast the deciding vote for…
On August 4, 1784, one day after anchoring in Three Saints Bay, Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov sends a scouting team ashore onto Alaska’s Kodiak Island. There, they establish the…
On August 23, 1784, four counties in western North Carolina declare their independence as the state of Franklin. The counties lay in what would eventually become Tennessee. The previous April,…
On this day in 1784, future President Zachary Taylor is born in Barboursville, Virginia. The American Revolution had been over barely a year when Taylor, a distant relative of founding…
