1776 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1776?
- March 2, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
- April 13, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- 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 15, 1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- July 4, 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- July 11, 1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- 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 7, 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
- 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 11, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
- October 26, 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- November 16, 1776 – American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
- November 29, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
- 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.
- December 25, 1776 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
- December 26, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
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