Events
DateEvent
1776 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Was Born
1776 Hyacinthe Jadin Was Born
1776 Joseph Küffner Was Born
1776 Philipp Jakob Riotte Was Born
1776 Johann Adolph Scheibe Died
1776 Ignaz von Seyfried Was Born
January 01 1776 Norfolk Is Burned In The American Revolution
January 10 1776 Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense
January 27 1776 Knox Takes Artillerty To Massachusetts
February 27 1776 Moore's Creek Battle Breaks Up Loyalist Militia
March 02 1776 Georgia Governor Arrested By Militia
March 03 1776 The USMC Attacks Nassau In The Bahamas
March 04 1776 British Face Cannon, Abandon Siege Of Boston
March 17 1776 British Retreat Ends The Siege Of Boston
March 28 1776 De Anza Finds Presidio Of San Francisco
April 06 1776 Continental Navy Fail To Capture Boat
April 07 1776 Captain John Barry Captures The Edward
April 12 1776 North Carolina Congressional Delegates Vote For American Independence
May 01 1776 Illuminata Established In Bavaria By Jesuit
May 04 1776 R.I.: First Colony To Renounce King George
May 15 1776 American Declared Independence From Great Britain
May 19 1776 Continentals Surrender At Battle Of The Cedars
June 07 1776 Lee Presents Resolution Leading To Independence
June 08 1776 American Revolutionaries Lose Battle In Quebec
June 11 1776 Committee Appointed To Draft Declaration Of Independence
June 12 1776 Adoption Of Virginia Declaration Of Rights
June 15 1776 Delware Was Officially Separated From Pennisilvaniya
June 28 1776 Americans' First Revolutionary War Victory Begets Carolina Day
June 28 1776 Washington's Bodygaurd, Hung For Mutiny And Sedition
June 29 1776 Privateer Battle Fought Near Cape May
June 29 1776 Priest Founds First San Francisco Mission
July 02 1776 Continental Congress Ends Ties With Britain
July 04 1776 Congress Adopts Declaration Of Independence
July 09 1776 Declaration Of Independence Read Aloud To Army
July 12 1776 Captain James Cook Begins His Third Voyage
August 02 1776 US Declaration Of Independence Signed
August 10 1776 London Learns Of Revolutionary War And Declaration
August 27 1776 Battle Of Long Island Occurs In New York
September 07 1776 Lee Makes World's First Submarine Attack
September 09 1776 Continental Congress Names New Union United States
September 10 1776 Hale Volunteers To Spy For Continental Army
September 11 1776 British And Americans Hold Peace Conference
September 15 1776 British Land At Kip's Bay, NY
September 16 1776 Battle Of Harlem Heights Fought During Revolution
September 17 1776 Persidio Founded In New Spain
September 21 1776 New York Burns When British Occupy
September 22 1776 Hale Hanged For Spying During Revolution
October 07 1776 Prince Of Russia Marries Lady Of Wurttemberg
October 11 1776 Revolution's Navy Delays British At Valcour
October 26 1776 Franklin Leaves For France As American Diplomat
October 28 1776 Chatterton Hill Was Captured By The British
November 16 1776 British And Hessians Capture Fort Washington
November 16 1776 Unite Provinces Recognize Independence
November 20 1776 British Attack Fort Lee, Continental Army Retreats
November 29 1776 British Win At Battle Of Fort Cumberland
December 07 1776 Du Motier Becomes American General
December 19 1776 Paine Publishes ""The American Crisis"
December 25 1776 Washington Attacks Hessians, British At Trenton
December 26 1776 Continental Army Attacks, Defeats Hessian Mercenaries