They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

The division of labour was initially discussed by Adam Smith, regarding the manufacture of pins, in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

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

* 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.

The first of these scientific concepts of acids and bases was provided by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, circa 1776.

The first scientific concept of acids and bases was provided by Lavoisier circa 1776.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, was to provide most of the ideas of classical liberal economics, at least until the publication of J. S. Mill's Principles in 1848.

The artist's last known oil painting was dated 1776 ; his final Salon participation was in 1779, and featured several pastel studies.

The largest military action in the Maritimes during the revolutionary war was the attack on Fort Cumberland ( the renamed Fort Beausejour ) in 1776 by a force of American sympathizers led by Jonathan Eddy.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

David Hume ( 25 August 1776 ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

His first wife, Juliet Macpherson ( c. 1776 – 1850 ), was a daughter of James Macpherson ( 1736 – 1796 ), a probable translator of Ossian poems.

The philosopher Adam Smith ( 1776 ) defined what was then called political economy as " an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations ", in particular as:

In August 1776, Allen and other prisoners were temporarily put ashore in Halifax, owing to extremely poor conditions aboard ship ; due to food scarcity, both crew and prisoners were on short rations, and scurvy was rampant.

Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).

Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.

His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

In May 1776, finance minister Turgot was dismissed, after he failed to enact reforms.

Indeed, at common law when the British and American legal systems divorced in 1776, felonies were crimes for which the punishment was either death or forfeiture of property.

An " easy and dignified " raconteur, in 1776 Henry was invited to give an account of his journeys at the Royal Society in London and at Versailles to Queen Marie Antoinette.

Although a popular governor and an able administrator, Eden's authority was overthrown by the events of the American Revolution, and in June 1776 he was invited by the Maryland Convention to leave for England.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

The Declaration of Independence refers to " unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America " adopted by the " Representatives of the united States of America " on July 4, 1776.

In November, 1776, he found methane at Lake Maggiore, and by 1778 he managed to isolate methane.

His most important compositions during this period were a symphony in D major, performed in the summer of 1776, and the oratorio La passione di Gesù Cristo with a text by Metastasio performed during Advent of 1776.

Significant elements of English common law prior to 1776 still remain in effect in many jurisdictions in the United States, because they have never been rejected by American courts or legislatures.

As can be seen in the texts, the French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U. S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it ( 4 July 1776 ).

Five volumes of supplementary material and a two volume index, supervised by other editors, were issued from 1776 to 1780 by Charles Joseph Panckoucke.

Rabbi Yaakov Emden ( d. 1776 ) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: " As an aside, I ’ ll mention here what I heard from my father ’ s holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba ’ al Shem of blessed memory.

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.

In June 1776, Congress ' first attempt at running the war effort was established with the committee known as " Board of War and Ordnance ", succeeded by the Board of War in July 1777, a committee which eventually included members of the military.

They obtained a barely adequate supply ( about 2. 5 million pounds ) by the end of 1776, mostly from France.

During World War II, a large part of the city as well as the historical Kivisild ( Stone Bridge ) ( built by Catherine II of Russia in 1776 – 1778 ) over the Emajõgi River were destroyed by the German Army, partly in 1941 and almost completely in 1944.

Student of Smolny Institute Catherine Molchanova with vacuum pump, by Dmitry Levitzky, 1776

Their son James Grier Ward ( 1765 – 1824 ) was born in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, and married Catherine Rogers ( 1776 – 1829 ).

Catherine II, acknowledging the influence of Voltaire and Becarria, included in the Instructions for the preparation of a Criminal Code ( 1776 ), a declaration that all punishments by which the body is maimed ought to be abolished.

He became minister of Saxe-Gotha at the court of France in 1776, but in 1777 he again left Paris on a visit to St Petersburg, where he remained for nearly a year in daily intercourse with Catherine.

* Élie Catherine Fréron ( 1719 – 1776 ), critic and controversialist

Élie Catherine Fréron ( 1719 – 10 March 1776 ) was a French critic and controversialist whose career focused on countering the influence of the philosophes of the French Enlightenment, partly thorough his vehicle, the Année littéraire.

Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Clary ( Marseille, 22 November 1693 – Marseille, 30 August 1748 ), son of Jacques Clary and his wife Catherine Barosse, paternal grandson of Antoine Clary and wife Marguerite Canolle, and maternal grandson of Angelin Barosse and his wife Jeanne Pélissière, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 February 1724 ) Françoise-Agnès Ammoric ( Marseille, 6 March 1705 – Marseille, 21 December 1776 ), daughter of François Ammoric and his wife Jeanne Boisson.

Her maternal grandparents were Joseph Ignace Somis ( c. 1710 – Marseille, 29 April 1750 ), son of Jean Louis Somis and his wife Françoise Bouchard, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 May 1736 ) Catherine Rose Soucheiron ( Marseille, 11 January 1696 – Marseille, 18 February 1776 ), daughter of François Soucheiron and his wife Anne Cautier.

Etheldred Benett ( 22 July 1776 – 11 January 1845 ) was an early English geologist, the eldest daughter of Thomas Benett ( 1729 – 1797 ) of Wiltshire and Catherine née Darell ( d. 1790 ); her brother, John ( 1773 – 1852 ), was a member of Parliament for Wiltshire and later South Wiltshire from 1819 to 1852.

From the middle of the 18th century Gzhatsk was a sloboda, and in 1776 under a decree by Catherine the Great it was granted status of an uyezd town and received a coat of arms showing " a barge loaded with bread ready for departure, on a field argent ", meaning that the town was a good landing stage for grain.

In 1772 – 1776 Levitzky worked on a series of portraits of the pupils of the privileged women establishment Smolny Institute for Young Ladies in St. Petersburg commissioned by Catherine II.