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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS |
| 1776 | 4 july | Federal Republic | John Hancock |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS | SECRETARY OF STATE |
| 1777 | 14 january | |||
| 1777 | 29 october | Charles Thomson | ||
| 1777 | 1 november | Henry Laurens | ||
| 1778 | 10 december | John Jay | ||
| 1779 | 28 september | Samuel Huntington | ||
| 1781 | 10 july | Thomas McKean | ||
| 1781 | 20 october | Robert B. Livingston | ||
| 1781 | 5 november | John Hanson | ||
| 1782 | 4 november | Elias Boudinot | ||
| 1783 | 3 september | Independence | ||
| 1783 | 3 november | Thomas Mifflin | ||
| 1784 | 7 may | John Jay | ||
| 1784 | 30 november | Richard Henry Lee | ||
| 1785 | 23 november | John Hancock | ||
| 1786 | 5 june | Nathaniel Gorham | ||
| 1787 | 2 february | Arthur St. Clair | ||
| 1788 | 22 january | Cyrus Griffin | ||
| 1789 | 1 april | Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg |