* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

* 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.

* 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist ( d. 1856 )

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

* 1734 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria ( d. 1776 )

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

In the years between 1776 – 78, Volta studied the chemistry of gases.

Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell ( 1776 – 1842 ), moved to the parsonage, initially to nurse her dying sister, but she spent the rest of her life there raising the children.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

* 1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer ( d. 1776 )

* 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( d. 1857 )

* 1776 – Captain John Barry and the captures the Edward.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

* 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

* 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist ( d. 1810 )

* 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.

* 1776 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general ( d. 1811 )

His first wife, Juliet Macpherson ( c. 1776 – 1850 ), was a daughter of James Macpherson ( 1736 – 1796 ), a probable translator of Ossian poems.

Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).

* 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece ( b. 1776 )

* Ioannis Kapodistrias ( 1776 – 1831 ), Greek patriot and first governor of the Greek state ( 1828 – 1831 ) his family hailed originally from Koper / Capodistria

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

In 1776 Griesbach published his Greek Gospel synopsis of Matthew, Mark and Luke as a volume separate from his critical edition of the New Testament ( cf.

The colony was unsuccessful, and the settlers moved to St. Augustine in 1776, where their traces, except for the St Photios Greek Chapel, were lost to history.

Phi Beta Kappa was the first Greek letter organization founded in the United States when it was created on December 5, 1776, at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

David Montagu Erskine ( 1776 – 1855 ) was a member of parliament and diplomat ; Henry David ( 1786 – 1859 ) was dean of Ripon ; Thomas ( 1788 – 1864 ) became a judge of the court of Common Pleas ; Esmé Steuart ( 1789 – 1817 ) fought at the battle of Waterloo where he lost an arm ( his widow Eliza married Admiral James Norton, who also lost an arm in action ).

The first creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1776 for the diplomat and politician Robert Hampden, 4th Baron Trevor.

Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville ( 24 January 1776 – 28 May 1857 ) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, and politician.

* Theodorick Bland ( judge ) ( 1776 – 1846 ), American jurist and diplomat from Maryland

* Eusebio Bardají Azara ( 1776 – 1842 ): lawyer, diplomat and politician.

* May 4 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general ( b. 1776 )

Later games included 1914, Anzio, 1776, Jutland, Third Reich, Panzer Blitz, Kingmaker, Napoleon, Victory in the Pacific, The Russian Front, Republic of Rome, Age of Renaissance, Storm Over Arnhem, Turning Point Stalingrad, Up-Front ( a card driven game ), Raid on St. Nazaire, Successors of Alexander the Great, London is Burning and Atlantic Storm.

The area receives its name from Russian Vice-Admiral Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin, ( 1776 – 1831 ).

Kutuzov returned to the Russian Army in 1776, where he again served under Suvorov in the Crimea for the next six years.

An influx Russian Jews in 1776 and 1781, and of Lithuanian Jews of the Perushim in 1809 and 1810, reinvigorated the community.

The regular reports which Pallas sent to St Petersburg were collected and published as Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs through various provinces of the Russian Empire ( 3 vols., 1771 – 1776 ).

Under Russian rule, it was stripped of its Magdeburg Rights in 1776 and went into cultural and economic decline.

* Karl Fuchs ( museum founder ) ( 1776 – 1846 ), Russian doctor and rector of the Kazan State University

As with the American revolution of 1776, the French revolution of 1789 and the German revolution of 1848, many Jews worldwide welcomed the Russian revolution of 1917, celebrating the fall of a regime that had presided over antisemitic pogroms, and believing that the new order in what was to become the Soviet Union would bring improvements in the situation of Jews in those lands.

Sophie was engaged to Prince Louis of Hesse, the brother of Tsar Paul ’ s first wife, but when the Russian heir to the throne became a widower in 1776, Frederick II of Prussia proposed Sophie as the ideal candidate to be Paul's second wife.

Instead, Potocki became, for the next decade and half, one of his chief political critics and opponents ; on 1776 he went to Moscow to argue, unsuccessfully, for limiting the power of king and the Russian ambassador, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg.

His brother Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakov ( 1776 – 1855 ) was a general in the Russian army who took a conspicuous part in the final campaigns against Napoleon.

There are many high ranked ' von Giers ' in Russian government, among them President in Podolien and minister Fredrik von Giers ( 1776 in St. Petersburg, 1842 ), minister Karl Ferdinand von Giers ( 1777, 1835 ), minister Konstatin von Giers ( 1777, 1835 ), Ambassador Nikolaus von Giers ( 1853, 1924 ), Ambassador Mikail von Giers ( 1856, 1932 ), Admiral Theodor von Giers ( 1835, 1905 ) etc.

Andrei Osipovich Sychra ( Sikhra, Sichra, in Russian Андрей Осипович Сихра Andrej Osipovič Sixra ) ( born 1773 (? 1776 ) in Vilnius ; died November 21 / December 3, 1850 in St Petersburg ) was a Russian guitarist, composer and teacher, of Czech ancestry.