His son Timur Shah Durrani, after inheriting power, transferred the capital of Afghanistan from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.

In 1776 Timur shah compelled his uncle Abdul Qadir Kahn Durrani to leave Afghanistan.

* Princess Shahzadi ‘ Alamiyan Razia Begum ( d. 1776, Karbala ), married 1st a Georgian Prince and 2nd Nader Shah

During his reign, the Durrani Empire began to shrink, in an attempt to move away from disaffected Pashtun tribes he shifted the capital from Kandahar to Kabul and chose Peshawar as the winter capital in 1776.

Subsequent missions to Bhutan were made by the British in 1776, 1777, and 1783, and commerce was opened between British India and Bhutan and, for a short time, Tibet.

In late 1776 he went to San Luis Obispo before again returning to San Diego in 1777 when he was made minister there.

The first known traverse by non-Indians was made by Fathers Dominguez and Escalante ( 1776 ), as they sought to establish a land route between California and Spanish America.

Hoffmann ( 1776 – 1822 ) wrote an inverse depiction of the lovable character in a story called Der Sandmann, which showed how sinister such a character could be made.

In 1776, Virtus was made the central figure in Seal of Virginia and the subsequent state's flag which features the seal.

The bill to incorporate it was introduced by Richard Caswell, who made his home there and later served as the first Governor of the State of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780.

It was from this building that General Nathanael Greene, commander of George Washington's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, made his headquarters during the winter of 1776.

After his December 26, 1776 morning march to Trenton, and before the Battle of Princeton, General George Washington made his headquarters in Newtown.

In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the " Tiadaghton Elm " on the banks of Pine Creek.

In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the " Tiadaghton Elm " on the banks of Pine Creek.

In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the " Tiadaghton Elm " on the banks of Pine Creek.

In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the " Tiadaghton Elm " on the banks of Pine Creek.

In 1776 the community of Black's Fort was made the county seat of the newly formed Washington county.

Despite the legends that have grown up about the Liberty Bell, it did not ring on July 4, 1776, as no public announcement was made of the Declaration of Independence.

The works, to become known as the Stonar Cut, made use of an existing sluice to cut across the neck of the loop, and were completed in 1776.

However, when Forester decided to write about Hornblower's early career in the sixth novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, he made his hero about five years younger, giving his birthdate as July 4, 1776 ( the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence ).

In October 1776 Necker was made director-general of the finances – he could not be controller because of his Protestant faith.

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.

Similarly minor changes were made for the Model 1776, which is often not considered to be a separate model.

On August 2, 1776, when delegates signed the formal copy of the Declaration of Independence, his position made him the second to sign, just after John Hancock, the president of the Congress.

Boydell eventually made £ 15, 000 from William Woollett | William Woollett's 1776 print of Benjamin West | Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe ( 1770 ), much of it from exports.

A 1776 artist's rendition of Robert Rogers ( soldier ) | Robert Rogers, whose likeness was never made from life

Howe soon changed his mind after writing this letter: any reinforcements would probably arrive too late, and the retreat of the Continental Army over the winter of 1776 – 7 made Philadelphia an increasingly vulnerable target.

The copy made by Salmasius was not, however, published until 1776, when Richard François Philippe Brunck included it in his Analecta.

" 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.

The pace of growth in the region increased dramatically with the establishment in 1776 of the new Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata with Buenos Aires as its capital, and increased legal trading allowed by the Free Trade Act of 1778, which allowed for " free and protected " trade between Spain and its colonies.

On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State.

New viceroyalties were created for New Granada in 1717 ( capital, Bogotá ) and the Río de la Plata in 1776 ( capital, Buenos Aires ).

Oulu was the capital of the Province of Oulu from 1776 to 2009.

Peale's enthusiasm for the nascent national government brought him to the capital, Philadelphia, in 1776, where he painted portraits of American notables and visitors from overseas.

He participated in the successful defense of Charleston in the Battle of Sullivan's Island in June 1776, when British forces under General Sir Henry Clinton staged an amphibious attack on the state capital.

John Shaw ( 1776 – 1832 ) worked on Lamorbey Park and was a well known architect in Kent and London, being one of the first designers of semi-detached housing in the capital.

Duchess Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( Louise in English ) was born on 10 March 1776 in a one story villa, just outside the capital in Hanover.

Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies ; it only achieved worldwide acclaim, however, in the early 20th century, when Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia.

Building on the work of Quesnay and Turgot, Adam Smith ( 1776 ) made the first explicit distinction between fixed and circulating capital.

Raja Gajpat Singh, a great grandson of Phul, the founder of the Phulkian Misl, established an independent kingdom by seizing a large tract of country which included the territory occupied by the present district of Jind from the Afghan governor Zain Khan in 1763 and made Jind city, the capital of the state in 1776.

In 1776, Wheelock became a leader of the United Committees, a group of disgruntled New Hampshire citizens angry at their lack of representation in the state legislature and the distance of the state capital ; in retaliation for these slights, Wheelock and others led twelve New Hampshire towns to secede from the state and attempt to join Vermont.