Historical Events for Year 1776 - Our 235th Anniversary!!! posted 7/3/2011 2:14:08 PM | 1 kudo what's this?     report abuse

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I did add some quips here and there, just for the fun of it-

Jan 1st - Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag
Jan 2nd - 1st revolutionary flag displayed
Jan 2nd - Austria ends interrogation torture
Jan 5th - Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
Jan 10th - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
Jan 16th - Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
Jan 24th - Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.

Feb 8th - 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg
Feb 17th - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published

Mar 2nd - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
Mar 3rd - US Commodre Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
Mar 4th - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
Mar 9th - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
Mar 17th - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
Mar 25th - Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
Mar 28th - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio (park) of San Francisco.

Apr 1st - Friedrich_Maximilian_Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig- Hmmm... hopefully no relation to the Klinger we know!!
Apr 3rd - Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
Apr 7th - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
Apr 12th - Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
Apr 15th - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy

May 1st - Johann Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
May 2nd - France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
May 4th - Rhode Island declares independence from England
May 12th - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French minister of Finance, resigns

Jun 7th - Richard Bland Lee (VA) moves Declaration of Independence in Continental Congress
Jun 10th - Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence
Jun 11th - Continental Congress create a committee to draft Declaration of Independence
Jun 12th - Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
Jun 23rd - Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress
Jun 28th - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
Jun 29th - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
Jun 29th - Virginia state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor

Jul 1st - 1st vote on Declaration of Independence
Jul 2nd - NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds right to vote
Jul 2nd - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"
Jul 4th - Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
Jul 6th - Declaration of Independence announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette"
Jul 8th - Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Declaration of Independence (Phila) Good grief- a possible distant relative?? Naw... couldn't be
Jul 9th - Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)
Jul 11th - Captain James Cook begins his third voyage
Jul 12th - Captain James Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean

Aug 2nd - Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
Aug 10th - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
Aug 27th - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
Aug 29th - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
Aug 30th - US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC

Sep 6th - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
Sep 6th - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)
Sep 6th - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.

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