* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician ( d. 1855 )

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

* 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1830 )

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

* Alexander I of Russia ( 1777 – 1825 ), emperor of Russia

* 1777 – Hyacinth, Chuvash founder of Sinology ( d. 1853 )

* 1864 – Charles Lot Church, Canadian politician ( b. 1777 )

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

* René-Prosper Tassin ( 1697 – 1777 )

# Maria-Anna Elisa Bonaparte ( 1777 – 1820 ), Grand-Duchess of Tuscany married Félix Bacciochi Levoy

Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen ( 1771 – 1848 ) and Karl von Grolman ( 1777 – 1843 ) were Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814.

** José I ( 1750 – 1777 )

** Pedro III ( 1777 – 1786 )

** Maria I ( 1777 – 1816 )

* 1860 – Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway ( b. 1777 )

* 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.

* 1841 – David Daniel Davis, British politician ( b. 1777 )

* 1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia ( b. 1777 )

* 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

In 1777 during the Saratoga Campaign Gen. Paterson commanded a brigade of General Horatio Gates ' army consisting of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th Massachusetts Regiments and 1st Berkshire County Militia Regiment that joined as reinforcements.

In 1777, while in training in England, one company of the 14th and one company of the 15th Regiments were placed under the command of Col. Patrick Ferguson and sent to America to test the concept of the rifle company with the Col ’ s.

GGBG was the only Corps of cavalry in the Bengal presidency till 1777 when two Regiments of Cavalry were transferred to the HEIC by Nawab of Oudh.

He held notoriously ambiguous views of Christianity, but famously challenged the argument from design in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ( 1777 ).

The great successes, at Boston ( 1776 ), Saratoga ( 1777 ) and Yorktown ( 1781 ), came from trapping the British far from base with much larger numbers of troops.

In the late summer of 1777, the British under John Burgoyne sent a major invasion army south from Quebec, with the intention of splitting off rebellious New England.

He had served as Prime Minister under King Charles III of Spain from 1777 until 1792 ; now he served as President of the Central Junta.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.

In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston, but instead was offered the command of the Queen's Rangers, a well-trained light infantry unit comprising 11 companies of 30 men, 1 grenadier and 1 hussar, and the rest light infantry.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

In 1777 he published a pamphlet on Considerations on the Nature, Quality and Distinctions of Coal and Culm which successfully helped to obtain relief from excise duty on carrying small coal.

" This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which David Hume had put in 1777 as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and Charles Lyell memorably rephrased in the 1830s as " the present is the key to the past ".

It was only with the emergence of nationalist sentiment from the late 18th century that the desire was felt to display national flags also in civilian contexts, notably the US flag, in origin adopted as a naval ensign in 1777, which after the American Revolution began to be displayed as a generic symbol of the United States, and the French Tricolore which became a symbol of the Republic in the 1790s.

The most influential Russian version of Ossian was the 1792 translation by Ermil Kostrov, who based his work on Pierre Le Tourneur's 1777 translation from the original.

Its main tributary, the Aquiry or Acre River, enters from the right about 1104 miles ( 1777 km ) from the Amazon.

After the Persian Occupation of Basra in 1777 many merchants and families moved from Basra and Kuwait to Zubarah.

Other trapdoor actions include the rare Confederate Tarpley carbine, the Austrian Wanzl, the Belgian Albini-Braendlin rifle and Terssen conversion ( some of which were made from French 1777 pattern flintlocks!

As a result of this debate the Congressional Board of War was created, on which Mifflin served from 1777 to 1778.

* June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777 – 1822, United Mexican States 1824 – 1846, until the California Republic.

Although Vermont initially supported the American Revolutionary War and sent troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in battles at Hubbardton and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies.

The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place on August 16, 1777, in Walloomsac, New York, about from its namesake Bennington, Vermont.

The Americans held it until June 1777, when British forces under General John Burgoyne again occupied high ground above the fort and threatened the Continental Army troops, leading them to withdraw from the fort and its surrounding defenses.

The only direct attack on the fort took place in September 1777, when John Brown led 500 Americans in an unsuccessful attempt to capture the fort from about 100 British defenders.