January 30 - Benjamin Franklin is removed from his post as American Deputy Postmaster General for his part in a scandal surrounding Governor Hutchinson's private letters.
May 27 - The Virginia Burgesses declare their support for an annual intercontinental congress.
August 6 - The founder of the Shaker Movement in the American colonies, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in New York.
October 26 - The First Continental Congress adjourns.
October 26 - The Minute Men are organized in America.
November 30 - Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia, later becoming the vanguard for the colonies' complete break from England.
December 14 - Warned by Paul Revere of a British plan to station troops at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a group of Massachusetts militiamen successfully attack the arsenal of Fort William and Mary.
