On January 14, 1784, the Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.

On February 28, 1784, John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the United States. Despite the fact that he was an Anglican, Wesley saw the need to provide church structure for his followers after the Anglican Church abandoned its American believers during the American Revolution.

On August 4, 1784, one day after anchoring in Three Saints Bay, Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov sends a scouting team ashore onto Alaska's Kodiak Island. There, they establish the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.

On August 23, 1784, four counties in western North Carolina declare their independence as the state of Franklin. The counties lay in what would eventually become Tennessee.