* 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 – 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 ).

***** HRH The Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( 1776 – 1857 )

* 10 March 1776 – 24 December 1793: Her Serene Highness Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( 25 April 1776 – 30 April 1857 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, the eleventh child and fourth daughter of George III.

Princess Mary was born, on 25 April 1776, at Buckingham Palace, London.

* 25 April 1776 – 22 July 1816: Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary

* Princess Shahzadi ‘ Alamiyan Razia Begum ( d. 1776, Karbala ), married 1st a Georgian Prince and 2nd Nader Shah

He married Princess Aleksandra Lubomirska, the daughter of Great Marshal of the Crown, Prince Stanisław Lubomisrki, on 2 June 1776. Portrait of count Stanislas Potocki | Stanisław Kostka Potocki.

* Sophie d ' Artois ( 1776 – 1783 ) was the first daughter of Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy ( 1756 – 1805 ) and her husband, born Charles Philippe of France ( 1757 – 1836 ).

Favras married in 1776 Victoria Hedwig Karoline, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg, whose mother, after being deserted by her husband Karl Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym in 1749, had found refuge with her daughter in the house of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise.

Princess Louise would have two more children, Prince Christian of Hesse, born August 14, 1776 and Louise Caroline, Princess of Hesse, born September 28, 1789.

* HSH Princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Hessen-Darmstadt ( 1755 – 1776 ), married Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich of Russia, later emperor

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

Mary Lindley Murray is credited with delaying William Howe and his army during General Washington's retreat from New York following the British landing at Kip's Bay, 15 September 1776.

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

Founded at The College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, as the first collegiate Greek-letter fraternity, it is also the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences and among the oldest undergraduate societies in the United States.

Over the years they would have 12 children: Mary ( 1754 ), Lois ( 1756 ), Miriam ( 1758 ), Rhoda ( 1760 ), Hannah ( who died as an infant in 1762 ), Levi ( 1763 ), Migale ( 1765, died that same year ), Johnathan ( 1768 ), Ezra ( 1770 ), Sarah ( 1773 ), Hannah ( 1776, also died as an infant ) and a child that was never registered.

While he was at the Congress in 1776, his wife Mary had managed the farm, seen to the completion of rebuilding their house, cared for nine children, and given birth to Hannah.

Mary Anne Clarke ( born Mary Anne Thompson 3 April 1776 – 21 June 1852 ) was the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York.

Mary Anne Thompson was born on 3 April 1776 in London, the daughter of a humble tradesman.

Grey married Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby ( 1776 – 1861 ), only daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby and Hon.

In November, 1926, Rockefeller came to the College of William and Mary for the dedication of an auditorium built in memory of the organizers of Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary scholastic fraternity founded in Williamsburg in 1776.

St Giles dates from the 15th century a chantry chapel, but all but the tower was rebuilt in 1776 to accommodate the parishioners of St Mary Magdalen.

" The Founding Fathers of 1776 and 1787: A Collective View ," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol.

His paternal grandparents were George Gresham ( born 1776 ) and Mary Pennington.

Butler married Mary Eyston in 1776 ; they had one son ( who died young ) and two daughters.

Mary was christened on 19 May 1776, in the Great Council Chamber at St. James's Palace, by Frederick Cornwallis, The Archbishop of Canterbury.

In 1776, Girard met Mary Lum, a Philadelphia native and nine years his junior.

* Mary Morris ( 1752 – July 5, 1776 )

John Heath, a student at William and Mary who in 1776 sought but was refused admission to the P. D. A., later established the first Greek-letter fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society.