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"The term Thoroughbred was first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick .
January 18 - Third Pacific expedition of Capt. James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, first view O'ahu then Kaua'i in the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
February 5 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation
February 6 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
February 23 - American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army
July 10 - American Revolutionary War: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 27 - American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant - British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
September - The Massachusetts Banishment Act, providing punishment for Loyalists, is passed.
November 26 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover Maui.
France Introduced the first state-controlled brothel
Births
February 22 - Rembrandt Peale, artist
April 10 - William Hazlitt - English essayist
September 19 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
November 1 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
December 17 - Sir Humphry Davy - English chemist
Abd ar-Rahman, sultan of Morocco.
Deaths
January 10 - Carolus Linnaeus
May 30 - François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire, French philosopher
June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher
July 3 - Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
November 9 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, artist
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