* 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 – 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 ).

On 21 February 1776 he was in Durham, where he attended the meeting of the city's masonic lodge at the Marquis of Granby tavern.

In 1776, the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, was segregated and incorporated.

* 1732 – Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer ( d. 1776 )

* 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.

In 1776, the crown created the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata ; Paraguay, which had been subordinate to Lima, now became an outpost of Buenos Aires.

Fifteen years later in 1776, the chevalier de Tromelin ( from whom the island takes its name ), captain of the French warship La Dauphine, visited the island and rescued the survivors — seven women and an eight-month-old child.

* 1776: The Steamboat invented by Claude de Jouffroy

** Juan Martín de Pueyrredón y O ' Dogan, Argentine general and politician ( b. 1776 )

* August 13 – Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti, French military leader ( d. 1776 )

Among the most important were the Journal Œconomique ( 1721 – 1772 ), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce ( 1759 – 1762 ), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon ( 1680 – 1734 ), and two dominated by physiocrats ; the Journal de l ' agriculture, du commerce et des finances ( 1765 – 1774 ) and the Ephémérides du citoyen ( 1767 – 1772 and 1774 – 1776 ).

Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante were two Spanish priests who, with a group of Spanish soldiers, explored southern Utah and traveled along the North Rim of the Canyon in Glen and Marble Canyons in search of a route from Santa Fe to California in 1776.

While the lake was well known by local Native Americans, it entered the annals of written history through the records of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who learned of its existence from the Timpanogos Utes in 1776.

* Rio de la Plata ( 1776 – 1814 )

" The city came to be the head of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata and in 1776 elevated to be the capital of the new Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

In the 18th century the additional Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717 ( capital, Bogotá ), and Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata 1776 ( capital, Buenos Aires ) were established from portions of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

* Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ( 1776 – 1814 )

The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774

In de Anza's diary on March 25, 1776, he states that he " arrived at the arroyo of San Joseph Cupertino ( now Stevens Creek ), which is useful only for travelers.

" Pressing on, de Anza located the sites for the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asis in present day San Francisco, California on March 28, 1776.

It was not until 1776, however, that the formal foundation of a Bibliotheca Publica was decreed at the Chapter General of the Order convened by Grand Master de Rohan.

Captain ( OF-2 ) | Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical Right of asylum | asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776 when he forcibly removed a ' neophyte ' in direct defiance of the padres.

* Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Mission Dolores ) founded in 1776