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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 ).

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In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.
" Anticipating the Declaration of Independence, Patriot leaders Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney convinced the Colonial Assembly to declare itself separated from British and Pennsylvania rule on June 15, 1776.
* 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.
As a young man during the American Revolutionary War, Madison served in the Virginia state legislature ( 1776 79 ), where he became known as a protégé of the delegate Thomas Jefferson.
* 1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
* 1853 Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral ( b. 1776 )
* Thomas Paine ( 1737 1809 ) English / American pamphleteer, most famous for Common Sense ( 1776 ) calling for American independence as the most rational solution
Image: Johann Christian Bach by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Johann Christian Bach, ( 1776 )
Prior to Independence, Thomas Mifflin was a member of Pennsylvania's Provincial Assembly ( 1772 1776 ).
A Commonwealth of Pennsylvania historical marker at the church commemorates both Thomas Wharton and Mifflin, the first and last Presidents of Pennsylvania under the 1776 State Constitution.
In January 1776, just as it became clear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was published.
On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.
* September 9 Thomas Assheton Smith II, politician and cricketer ( b. 1776 )
During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 1641 ).
Oroonoko kills Imoinda in a 1776 performance of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko.
On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the largest and most populous county in Maryland, would be divided into three smaller units.
* Humphrey Gainsborough ( 1718 1776 ), brother of the artist Thomas Gainsborough, was a pastor and inventor who lived in Henley.
* Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk ( 1776 1851 ), British peer and politician
On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State.
An English abolitionist, Thomas Day, had earlier written in a 1776 letter:
In the winter of 1775 and 1776, the Rhode Island Legislature put militia General William West in charge of rooting out loyalists in Newport, and several notable individuals such as Joseph Wanton and Thomas Vernon were exiled to the northern part of the state.
In his influential 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine echoed this notion, arguing that the American Revolution provided an opportunity to create a new, better society:
On July 14, 1776, Isaiah Thomas, intercepting the packet from Philadelphia to Boston, performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence ever in front of Worcester City Hall.
In 1776, Lieutenant Thomas Rich was selected to represent the town at the General Assembly of Massachusetts.

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