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* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
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* 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 and Continental
Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.
On June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress resolved to appoint a committee of 13 to prepare a draft of a constitution for a union of the states.
Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.
* Enterprise ( 1776 ), a ship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution
He resigned his crown-appointed positions in 1776 and, on June 22, went on to represent New Jersey in the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence.
Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.
Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.
* 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the " Lee Resolution " to the Continental Congress.
* 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.
* 1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York for the first time.
* 1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution.
In Lee's Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain, which read ( in part ):
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
* 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
Ezra Lee, Continental Army ) tried and failed to sink the British warship HMS Eagle, flagship of the blockaders in New York harbor on September 7, 1776.
Jefferson had also served on the committee appointed to draw up the rules of order for the Continental Congress in 1776.
* Tory Act University of Tulsa ; Order of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 2 January 1776
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