April 23 – The Congress of the Confederation passes the Ordinance of Governance to set guidelines for adding to the original 13 states in the
United States of America.[4]
July 29 – The United States and the Kingdom of France sign a convention for establishing diplomatic relations and "determining the functions and prerogatives of their respective consuls, vice consuls, agents, and commissaries".[7]
August 13 –
Parliament of Great Britain passes
Pitt's India Act (An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the
East India Company and of the British Possessions in India).[8] It requires the governor-general to be chosen from outside the Company and makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision.
September 19 – In
France, the
Robert brothers (Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert) and a Mr. Collin-Hullin (whose first name is lost to history) become the first people to fly more than 100 km or 100 miles in the air, lifting off from
Paris and landing 6 hours and 40 minutes later near
Bethune after a journey of 186 kilometres (116 mi).
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abcdHarper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
^Charles Kettleborough, Ph.D., Constitution Making in Indiana: A Source Book of Constitutional Documents, with Historical Introduction and Critical Notes (Indiana Historical Commission, 1916) p3
^
Denis Hollier and R. Howard Bloch, A New History of French Literature (Harvard University Press, 1994) p549
^"Commercial banks", by Benjamin J. Klebaner, in The Encyclopedia of New York City, 2nd edition (Yale University Press, 2010)
^American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States (Gales and Seaton, 1833) p89
^John Keay, The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company (Macmillan Publishing, 1991), p390