American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.

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The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany's Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved.