1776 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1776?
- February 27, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- March 4, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- March 17, 1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
- March 28, 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- May 1, 1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
- May 4, 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- June 8, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- June 11, 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
- June 12, 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
- August 10, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- August 27, 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
- September 11, 1776 – British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
- September 16, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- October 7, 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- October 9, 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- November 16, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- November 29, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
- December 5, 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
- December 7, 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
- December 19, 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis.
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