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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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| 1861 |
| | | Longfellow's narrative poem Paul Revere's Ride dramatizes a turning point at the start of the American Revolution | |
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| 1910 |
| | | A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty' | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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