* 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 ).

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

* June 6 – Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, writer and patriot ( d. 1776 )

* Nathan Hale Homestead, first established around 1740 by Deacon Richard Hale ( 1717 – 1802 ), the present structure has been standing since 1776 and was built to house the combined family of Deacon Hale and his second wife Abigail ( Cobb ) Adams.

The original house, birthplace of Nathan Hale in 1755, is said to have been on the property, just southeast of the 1776 house.

Another Midway resident, Nathan Brownson, served in the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778, but did not sign the Declaration.

On September 22, 1776, Richmond was the hangman who executed Nathan Hale .< ref >

* 1776 – Nathan Hale captured and executed for espionage ( September 22 )

Nathan Hale ( June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776 ) was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

In 1776, American spy Nathan Hale set out from Norwalk by ship on his ill-fated intelligence-gathering mission.

* Nathan Hale ( 1755 – 1776 ), an American patriot serving as a spy during the American Revolution

* Nathan Hale, captured U. S. soldier executed in 1776.

He married Lucy Clewley ( b. 1776 ) in 1794 and had five children, Joseph ( b. 1799 ), Nathan and Thomas ( twins, b. 1803 ), James Sullivan ( b. 1810 ) and Susan ( b. 1812 ).

He was present at the Battle of Long Island the next year, and was present at the execution of Nathan Hale on 22 September 1776.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example 1776 would be sorted as if spelled out " seventeen seventy-six ", and 24 heures du Mans as if spelled " vingt-quatre ..." ( French for " twenty-four ").

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

As can be seen in the texts, the French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U. S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it ( 4 July 1776 ).

The parade in Boston is closely associated with Evacuation Day, when the British left Boston in 1776 during the American War of Independence.

* 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.

* 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.

* 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

The first was probably that held on 31 December 1775, and the " Lunar " name is first recorded in 1776.

The leading figure behind the establishment of the society as a more organised body during this early period seems to have been Matthew Boulton: his home at Soho House in Handsworth was the principal venue for meetings, and in 1776 he is recorded as planning " to make many Motions to the Members respecting new Laws, and regulations, such as will tend to prevent the decline of a society which I hope will be lasting.

The earliest reference that might be relevant to Mokèlé-mbèmbé stories ( though the term is not used in the source ) comes from the 1776 book of Abbé Lievain Bonaventure, a French missionary to the Congo River region.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.

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

Richard Henry Lee is a key character in the musical 1776.

* 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

* 1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata ( a tablet evoking the law ) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

The only thing known about his later life is that he died in 1776, aged 66.

The latter scholars cite examples, such as the Declaration of Independence ( describing in 1776 " the Right of the People to ... institute new Government ") and the New Hampshire Constitution ( stating in 1784 that " nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind ").