1776
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
Years: 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 - 1776 - 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781
Events
- January 10 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
- March 17 - American Revolutionary War: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington places artillery overlooking the city.
- March 28 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- May 1 - Former Jesuit Adam Weishaupt founds the Bavarian Illuminati (Order of the Illuminati) in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
- June 12 - Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason adopted by the Virginia Convention of Delegates.
- June 17 - Lt. Jose Joaquin Moraga[?] leads a band of colonists from Monterey Presidio, landing on June 29 and constructing the Mission Dolores[?] of the new Presidio of San Francisco.
- July 4 - American Revolutionary War: United States Declaration of Independence.
- September - First running of the St. Leger Stakes horse race in England.
- December 5 - The Phi Beta Kappa society is organized at the College of William and Mary.
- December 23 - Thomas Paine, living with Washington's troops begins publishing The Crisis[?], containing the stirring phrase, These are the times that try men's souls.
- December 25 - American Revolutionary War: Gen. George Washington orders the first issue of The Crisis read to his troops on Christmas Eve, then at 6 PM all 2600 of them march to McKonkey's Ferry[?], cross the Delaware River and land on the Jersey bank at 3 AM.
- December 26 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trenton - Washington's troops surprise the 1500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. [Johan Rall] at 8 AM outside Trenton and score a victory, taking 1000 prisoners while suffering only 6 wounded.
- Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
- Edward Gibbon publishes The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Births
- January 24 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, poet, composer, and painter (+ 1822)
- February 11 - Joannis Capodistrias Greek governor of Troezen[?] (1827-1831)
- March 10 - Louise[?] (Luise), queen of Prussia (+ 1810)
- April 1 - Sophie Germain, mathematician (+ 1831)
- June 11 - John Constable, landscape painter
- August 6 - Amedeo Avogadro, chemist
Deaths
- David Hume, Scottish philosopher
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poured some of the melted liquid into the lamps. Fortunata had, by this
more hand-clapping than talking, when Trimalchio called out,
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place at the table, he immediately staged an impersonation of Ephesus the
would take first place in the next circus games.
friends," he observed, "but that's not all, they sucked the same milk
water of freedom if I live: to make a long story short, I'm freeing all
bedfellow, too. Carrio will get a tenement house and his twentieth,
commend her to all my friends. I announce all this in public so that my
commenced to pay tribute to the generosity of their master, when he,
same he read aloud from beginning to end, to the groaning accompaniment
dearest friend," he entreated; "you'll construct my monument in keeping
a little bitch at the feet of my statue, some wreaths and some jars of
even after I'm dead, thanks to your kindness. See to it that it has a
trees of every kind planted around my ashes; and plenty of vines, too,
then have no pains taken with the one he must stay in for a longer time,
--DESCEND TO AN HEIR--
"In any case, I'll see to it through a clause in my will, that I'm not
monument, to crap, I'll appoint one of my freedmen custodian of my tomb.
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