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| 1781 |
| | | US poet Philip Freneau describes in The British Prison Ship the horrors of his experiences as a prisoner | |
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| 1781 |
| | | The British general Charles Cornwallis, isolated at Yorktown, is forced to surrender in the final engagement of the Revolutionary War | |
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| c. 1783 |
| | | Some 40,000 Loyalists flee from British America to the previously French colonies, in particular Nova Scotia | |
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| 1783 |
| | | In the Treaty of Paris, negotiated by Adams, Franklin and Jay, the British government recognizes US independence | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Delegates meeting in Philadelphia agree a final draft for a US consitution, to be submitted to the states for ratification | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The Federalist Papers, in support of the Constitution and mainly written by Alexander Hamilton, begin appearing in New York | |
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| 1788 |
| | | The constitution of the United States is ratified by the states, but it is immediately agreed that amendments will be desirable | |
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| 1789 |
| | | George Washington, unanimously elected first president of the United States, is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York | |
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| 1798 |
| | | The US public is outraged by news of the XYZ Affair, in which the French ask for bribes before being willing to negotiate a treaty | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper | |
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