1776

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Born in 1776:

Spanish chemist and lawyer, Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro.
English painter John Constable.
German ewriter Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm Hoffmann, most famous for the Nutcracker (which was later made into a ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
French Mathematician Sophie Germain.

Died in 1776:

Events of 1776:

(February 14) Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
(May 15) Virginia passes a Declaration of Rights *which does not extend to slaves).
(July 4) The Continental Congress passes a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. There are approximately 200,000 slaves in the Thirteen Colonies at this time.
Several states enact constitutions at the suggestion of the Contintntal Congress. None of these were submitted to the people for ratification.

(December 3) Thomas paine publishes the first installment of his pamphlet The Crisis.
(December 12) The Continental Congress abandons Philadelphia for Baltimore

(February) George Washington withdraws from Boston.
(March) The British fleet leaves Boston.
(March) Washington takes positions at Harlem Heights and in Brooklyn.
(May) The British bring in German reinforcements, which turns New York, a Loyalist hotbed, against them.
(May-June) American troops under Benedict Arnold evacuate their positions in (Canada) to Fort Crown Point on Lake Champlain.
(June 28) the British are repulsed from Charleston, South Carolina.
(August 27) General Howe nearly captures Washington's army at the Battle of Long Island.
(September 16) The British take control of Manhattan.
(September 21) Nathan Hale arrested, and hanged the next day as a spy.
(October) Several naval battles on Lake Champlain force the Americans to abandon Fort Crown Point and retreat back to Fort Ticonderoga.
(November) Fort Washington and Fort Lee (opposite ends of the George Washington Bridge) are captured by the British.
(December 6) The British capture Newport, Rhode Island.
(December 11) Washington retreats into Pennsylvania.
(December 26) Washington ferries 1,000 men across the Delaware River and surpirises the Hessian garrison of Trenton, New Jersey, capturing 600 men along with badly-needed supplies.

Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations.
(June 29) Mission San Francisco de Asis founded in California.
The Spanish presidio in southern Arizona is abandoned, and the garrison is moved to a new one at what will become Tucson.

1775 - 1776 - 1777

1777	1775	The Great Seal of the United States	Something Wicked This Way Comes
George Washington Crossing the Delaware	The Lees of Old Virginia	Thomas Paine	Jesus Christ Superstar
Declaration of Independence	Ezekiel 25:17	Thurgood Marshall On the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
John Walter	Revolutionary War	Howard Douglas	The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904
Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg	John Dunlap Broadside	Brittish	Button Gwinnett
Stephen Hopkins	John Adams	1770	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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