Ratification Day in the United States is the anniversary of the congressional proclamation of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, on January 14, 1784, at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland, by the Confederation Congress, which marked the official end of the American Revolutionary War.

Given under the seal of the United States, witness His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, our president, at Annapolis, this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four ...[3]Due to the severe winter of 1783–1784, delegates from only seven of the thirteen states were present in Congress.

The vote would not set a precedent for future decisions; the document would be forwarded to the U.S. ministers in Europe, who would be told to wait until a treaty ratified by nine states could arrive, and to request a delay of three months.

However, if Britain insisted, the ministers should use the seven-state ratification, pleading that a full Congress was not in session.

[4] Ultimately, delegates from Connecticut and South Carolina arrived at the last moment, and nine states ratified the treaty.