1776 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1776?
- January 10, 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 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.
- April 12, 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
- May 4, 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- June 7, 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States 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.
- August 10, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- September 15, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip’s Bay during the New York Campaign.
- September 17, 1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- September 21, 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
- September 22, 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- October 7, 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- October 26, 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- 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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