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| 1616 |
| | | John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614 | |
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| 1650 |
| | | The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Encouraged by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia | |
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| 1778 |
| | | Francis Hopkinson's popular ballad The Battle of the Kegs describes an ingenious American threat to the British navy | |
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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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| 1786 |
| | | US author Philip Freneau publishes his first collection of poems, dating back to 1771 | |
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| 1789 |
| | | US painter and author William Dunlap has great success with his comedy The Father; or, American Shandyism | |
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| 1796 |
| | | US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France | |
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| 1798 |
| | | US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context | |
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| 1814 |
| | | US lawyer Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner after seeing the British bombard Fort McHenry | |
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