* 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.

* 1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante were two Spanish priests who, with a group of Spanish soldiers, explored southern Utah and traveled along the North Rim of the Canyon in Glen and Marble Canyons in search of a route from Santa Fe to California in 1776.

Also in 1776, Fray Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary, spent a week near Havasupai, unsuccessfully attempting to convert a band of Native Americans to Christianity.

" Pressing on, de Anza located the sites for the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asis in present day San Francisco, California on March 28, 1776.

The Franciscan missionary-explorer Francisco Garcés estimated the Mohave population in 1776 as approximately 3, 000 Mojave Indians ( Garcés 1900 ( 2 ): 450 ).

* Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Mission Dolores ) founded in 1776

The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu ( a companion of Father Junipero Serra ), both members of the de Anza Expedition, which had been charged with bringing Spanish settlers to Alta ( upper ) California, and evangelizing the local Natives, the Ohlone.

Founders: Father Francisco Palóu, O. F. M., Father Pedro Benito Cambón, O. F. M .- June 27, 1776

The first non-Native Americans to see the Sevier River were most likely the Catholic fathers Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez as they passed through on their expedition to California in 1776.

Early interaction of these Native Americans with Europeans came with the Spanish colonization via the establishment of missions in this area, with the missions in San Jose, Sonoma, and San Francisco and particularly the establishment of a Presidio ( a military establishment ) in 1776.

The Kern River was originally named Rio Bravo de San Felipe by Father Francisco Garces when he explored the area in 1776.

When Father Francisco Garcés visited the area in 1776, he recorded that the Indians were cultivating crops.

Seven years later, in 1776, an expedition led by Juan Bautista de Anza selected the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, which Jose Joaquin Moraga would soon establish.

Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis ( established in June 1776 ).

In 1776, Escalante and his Spanish superior Francisco Atanasio Domínguez left from Santa Fe, New Mexico on an attempt to reach Monterey, California ( EarthMetrics, 1989 ).

Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route later followed by fur trappers.

From 1769 to 1776 the Franciscan missionary Francisco Garcés of converso morisco descent, was exploring Sonora, Baja California, California, Arizona, and Nevada.

The first church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is older than the Archdiocese itself ; Mission San Francisco de Asís was founded on June 29, 1776 by Franciscan Friars.

In 1776, the Spanish friars Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez crossed the river near present-day Jensen, naming it the Rio de San Buenaventura.

In 1776, Escalante and his Spanish superior Francisco Atanasio Domínguez left from Santa Fe, New Mexico on an attempt to reach Monterey, California.

In 1776, two Franciscan missionaries Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante sought to find a land route between Santa Fe in New Mexico to Monterey in California.

Only in 1776 did two Spanish Priests, Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante travel along the North Rim again, together with a group of Spanish soldiers, exploring southern Utah in search of a route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey, California.

Franciscan missionaries Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante unsuccessfully attempted the trip to California, which was just being settled, leaving Santa Fe in 1776 and making it all the way into the Great Basin near Utah Lake before returning via the Arizona Strip.

While the lake was well known by local Native Americans, it entered the annals of written history through the records of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who learned of its existence from the Timpanogos Utes in 1776.

These explorers came to the area sometime after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who in 1776, crossed northern Utah through the Uintah Basin.

The complete Spanish name was Rio de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ( River of our Lady of Sorrows ), as reported by Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante in 1776.

The first European to see Utah Lake was Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante in 1776.

Franciscan missionary Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, while on his expedition in late summer and early autumn of 1776, was trying to find a land route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey, California.

It was again seen in 1776 by Silvestre Vélez de Escalante.

Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Spanish Franciscan missionary is considered the first European explorer in the area in 1776, but only came as far north as Utah valley ( Provo ), some 60 miles south of the Salt Lake City area.

** Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Spanish Padre who in 1776 took an expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau.

In 1776, the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, was segregated and incorporated.

* 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

* 1732 – Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer ( d. 1776 )

In 1776, the crown created the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata ; Paraguay, which had been subordinate to Lima, now became an outpost of Buenos Aires.

Fifteen years later in 1776, the chevalier de Tromelin ( from whom the island takes its name ), captain of the French warship La Dauphine, visited the island and rescued the survivors — seven women and an eight-month-old child.

* 1776: The Steamboat invented by Claude de Jouffroy

** Juan Martín de Pueyrredón y O ' Dogan, Argentine general and politician ( b. 1776 )

* August 13 – Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti, French military leader ( d. 1776 )

Among the most important were the Journal Œconomique ( 1721 – 1772 ), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce ( 1759 – 1762 ), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon ( 1680 – 1734 ), and two dominated by physiocrats ; the Journal de l ' agriculture, du commerce et des finances ( 1765 – 1774 ) and the Ephémérides du citoyen ( 1767 – 1772 and 1774 – 1776 ).

* Rio de la Plata ( 1776 – 1814 )

" The city came to be the head of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata and in 1776 elevated to be the capital of the new Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

In the 18th century the additional Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717 ( capital, Bogotá ), and Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata 1776 ( capital, Buenos Aires ) were established from portions of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

* Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ( 1776 – 1814 )

The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774

In de Anza's diary on March 25, 1776, he states that he " arrived at the arroyo of San Joseph Cupertino ( now Stevens Creek ), which is useful only for travelers.

It was not until 1776, however, that the formal foundation of a Bibliotheca Publica was decreed at the Chapter General of the Order convened by Grand Master de Rohan.

Captain ( OF-2 ) | Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical Right of asylum | asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776 when he forcibly removed a ' neophyte ' in direct defiance of the padres.