Editing 1784 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; "[[Kettle War]]", a 1-day action on the [[Scheldt]] in which a ship of the [[Dutch Republic]] repels forces of the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[North Carolina]] rescinds its resolution [[state cessions|ceding its western territory]] ([[Washington District, North Carolina|Washington District]], modern-day Tennessee) to the United States, after earlier giving Congress two years to accept the terms.<ref name="Harper1784" />
* [[October 31]]&ndash;[[December 14]] &ndash; The [[Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan]] in [[Transylvania]] causes [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]] to suspend the [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian]] Constitution.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; The [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore|Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States]] is established.
* [[November 27]] &ndash; The phenomenon of [[black holes]] is first posited in a paper by [[John Michell]], in the ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B.D.F.R.S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S.|jstor=106576|first=John|last=Michell|year=1784|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|volume=75|pages=35–57|bibcode=1784RSPT...74...35M|doi=10.1098/rstl.1784.0008|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1432270|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Richard Henry Lee]] of Virginia is selected as the new President of the Confederation Congress.<ref name="Harper1784" />
* [[December]] &ndash; [[Immanuel Kant]]'s essay "[[Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?]]" is published.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; The [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] in the United States is officially formed at the "Christmas Conference", led by [[Thomas Coke (Methodist)|Thomas Coke]] and [[Francis Asbury]].