* 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.

Portrait of Carl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough, 1777

Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 012. jpg | Gainsborough ` s Daughter Mary ( 1777 )

* August 21 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician ( b. 1777 )

* June 15 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet ( b. 1777 )

* October 8 – Thomas Cochran ( judge ), Canadian judge ( b. 1777 )

His will left bequests to Southey ( who would later write Telford ’ s biography ), the poet Thomas Campbell ( 1777 – 1844 ) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia ( to which he had been a contributor ).

* Thomas Clayton ( 1777 – 1854 ), lawyer and U. S. senator from Delaware

The evolution begins in 1777, when Thomas Shore purchases 144 acres atop “ Archers Hill ” from the heirs of John Martin.

It was named for Thomas Burke, a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1781 and Governor of North Carolina from 1781 to 1782.

The first Governor chosen to break this chain of Colonial Governors was Thomas Johnson ( 1732 – 1819 ), who took office on March 21, 1777.

* Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham 1777 – 1782

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

On September 18, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, a convoy of wagons carrying the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown, under the command of Col. Thomas Polk ( Charlotte, North Carolina ), stopped in Quakertown.

The battle is the subject of a poem Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell ( 1777 – 1844 ).

Special mention is due of his editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( 1775 – 1778 ); and of Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others in the 15th century ( 1777 – 1778 ), with an appendix to prove that the poems were all the work of Chatterton.

In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner ; in the same year, Thomas Brown ( c. 1777 – 1869 ) entered the house as an apprentice.

It was within Weedon's tavern that Thomas Jefferson in January 1777 wrote the Statute of Religious Freedom ; the very first document of its kind to acknowledge government recognition of religious tolerance.

* Robert Thomas Wilson ( 1777 – 1849 ), British general and politician

* Thomas Young ( American revolutionary ) ( 1731 – 1777 ), member of the Sons of Liberty

Interest in the idea was revived in the eighteenth century, in such texts as the Historical Essay on the English Constitution ( 1771 ) and John Cartwright's Take Your Choice ( 1777 ) and featured in the debate between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke.

Edmund Burke included the piece in The Annual Register for that year, and when Edmond Malone in 1776 worked on a biographical memoir for Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1777 ) he based it on Glover's Anecdotes as well as first-hand information from Dr. Thomas Wilson, Senior Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.

Thomas Wharton Jr. was chosen in 1777 to be the first President of the Supreme Executive Council.

* Thomas Anthony Southwell, 3rd Viscount Southwell ( 1777 – 1860 )