Having quickly made his name and fortune, in 1776 Sheridan bought David Garrick's share in the Drury Lane patent, and in 1778 the remaining share.

In 1795, Richard B. Sheridan married Hester Jane Ogle ( 1776 – 1817 ), daughter of the Dean of Winchester.

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.

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.

It became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America.

The spacecraft takes its name from four British ships of exploration named Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captain James Cook during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779.

Adam Smith used the phrase in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, and David Ricardo titled one chapter of his 1817 work Principles of Political Economy and Taxation " On the Influence of Demand and Supply on Price ".

Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence.

This 1877 illustration, entitled The rescue of Jemima Boone and Betsey and Fanny Callaway, kidnapped by Indians in July 1776, is one of many depictions of the famous event.

On December 31, 1776 one year after the Battle of Quebec, a mass was held in celebration of the British success, and Carleton threw a grand ball.

Along with John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ), Crome was one of the earliest English artists to represent identifiable species of trees, rather than generalised forms.

Due to non-settlement the land was regranted in 1776, and one of the later grantees, Samuel Blood, succeeded in renaming the town Groton after his hometown, Groton, Massachusetts, in 1792.

* 125 Hollis men were in the army in whole or in part during the year 1776, approximately one tenth of the population.

* James Wells, one of the first European settlers in Jenner Township, known for his harrowing experience from Indian attack while tending his fields in autumn 1776 -- " Wells ' Escape " -- near the present site of Jennerstown.

After American diplomats appealed to the French revolutionary and arms dealer Pierre Beaumarchais, the French government loaned Beaumarchais one million livres on June 10, 1776 to establish a shell corporation under the alias Roderigue Hortalez & Co.

Bells were rung to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776, and while there is no contemporary account of the Liberty Bell ringing, most historians believe it was one of the bells rung.

Jean-Pierre Boyer ( possibly 15 February 1776 – 9 July 1850 ), a native of Saint-Domingue, was a soldier, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843.

The Maratha army was routed by one of Hyder's generals in 1776, and Hyder either bribed or sufficiently threatened the nizam's military leaders that they withdrew from the campaign.

After the death of his wife in 1776, Burgoyne had four children by his mistress Susan Caulfield ; one was Field Marshal John Fox Burgoyne, father of Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, VC.

In 1775, Watt designed two large engines: one for the Bloomfield Colliery at Tipton, completed in March 1776, and one for John Wilkinson's ironworks at Willey, Shropshire, which was at work the following month.

With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of the first centres of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution.

In 1776, one of the most damaging hurricanes in Western history struck the island, killing 6000.

Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories, between the years 1760 and 1776 has become a Canadian adventure classic and is still considered as one of the best descriptions of Native Indian life at the time of Henry ’ s travels.

After independence from Great Britain in 1776, the Virginia Colony became the Commonwealth of Virginia, one of the original thirteen states of the United States, adopting as its official slogan " The Old Dominion ".

*, was one of 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress, launched in August 1776 ; and scuttled in November 1777 to prevent capture

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

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.

The Scottish philosopher David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism.

Following the British example, the constitutions of Virginia ( 1776 ) and Massachusetts ( 1780 ) and other states thereafter adopted the impeachment mechanism ; however, they restricted the punishment to removal of the official from office.

Rhode Island was the first of the 13 original colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony.

In 1776 Paisiello was invited by the empress Catherine II of Russia to St Petersburg, where he remained for eight years, producing, among other charming works, his masterpiece, Il barbiere di Siviglia, which soon attained a European reputation.

With the capture of the fort, the Patriot forces obtained a large supply of cannons and other armaments, much of which Henry Knox transported to Boston during the winter of 1775 – 1776.

Lee also received various other titles: in 1776, he was named Commander of the so-called Canadian Department, although he never got to serve in this capacity.

When we arrived at a lovely creek, which because it was the Friday of Sorrows Friday before Palm Sunday, the 3rd of April 1776, we called the Arroyo de los Dolores ... On the banks of the Arroyo ... we discovered many fragrant chamomiles and other herbs, and many wild violets.

On July 14, 1776, Boone's daughter Jemima and two other teenage girls were captured outside Boonesborough by an Indian war party, who carried the girls north towards the Shawnee towns in the Ohio country.

However, pension records and other documents from the 19th Century indicate that numerous men joined various Continental and Militia units, particularly the 6th and 8th Militia Regiments, the latter of which joined Gen. George Washington ‘ s Army in the battle of New York and Long Island in the autumn of 1776.

Also preserved is " The House the Women Built ," a 2-story building built in 1776 by Sally Bowers and other young women of the town while the men fought in the Continental Army.

In 1776, Francis Light sent 1, 400 flintlocks along with other goods as gifts to King Taksin.

Cunningham's other brothers were the naval surgeon Peter Miller Cunningham ( 1789 – 1864 ) and the poet, Thomas Mounsey Cunningham ( 1776 – 1834 ).

Thomas Paine stated in his pamphlet Common Sense ( 1776 ): " For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king ; and there ought to be no other.

On the death of Élie Fréron in 1776 the other collaborators in the Année littéraire asked Geoffroy to succeed him, and he conducted the journal until its closure in 1792.

People immediately noticed that, even though the Mecklenburg Declaration was supposedly written more than a year before the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, the two declarations had some very similar phrases, including " dissolve the political bands which have connected ", " absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British Crown ", " are, and of right ought to be ", and " pledge to each other, our mutual cooperation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor ".

In 1776, abolitionist Thomas Day responding to the hypocrisy in the Declaration wrote: If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.

Benedict Arnold again led a fleet of ships at the Battle of Valcour Island, and played other key roles in thwarting Britain's attempt to recapture the fort in 1776.

It is reportedly the longest-published book in the history of North America other than the Bible, having been continuously published since before the 1776 revolution.

Two other prominent Penrith pioneers were Irish-born Thomas Jamison ( 1752 / 53-1811 ), a member of the First Fleet and surgeon-general of New South Wales ( after whom Jamisontown is named ), and his son, the landowner, physician and constitutional reformer Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ).

In 1771 Governor Tryon called out 5 militiamen of Tryon County to help put down the Regulator movement, a protest against corrupt county officials and excessive taxes, centered in counties to the northeast of Tryon. Although the colony was officially at peace with the Indians from 1763 to 1776, the Tryon County frontier was the target of occasional raids, usually by Cherokee, but sometimes by Shawnee and other faraway tribes.

The 1838 declaration was primarily inspired by the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence and the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, but it also included some other political ideas that were popular in the 19th century.