Exploration and Survey
- May - George Vancouver explores Puget Sound and becomes the first European to see Mount Rainier.
- May 11 - Captain Robert Gray on the Columbia Rediviva becomes the first white man to enter the Columbia River.
- Ramsden theodolite constructed by Jesse Ramsden for the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.
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