" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

His observations appeared in four large folio volumes from 1776 – 1811, some of them being reprinted in Samuel Vince's Elements of Astronomy.

On January 2, 1847, his story " Fourth of July, 1776 " appeared in Saturday Review magazine.

In 1776 appeared his anonymous pamphlet on the American Revolution in opposition to Dr Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, in which he sympathised with the views of the British legislature.

Along with John Hancock, president of the Congress, Thomson's name ( as secretary ) appeared on the first published version of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776.

His copy later appeared in print: first in 1776 when Richard François Philippe Brunck included it in his Analecta ; and also when Friedrich Jacobs published the full Palatine Anthology as the Anthologia Graeca ( 13 vols.

Unlike the Mecklenburg Declaration that had appeared in the Raleigh Register in 1819, the Mecklenburg Resolves fell short of an outright declaration of independence, and did not contain language that was parallel to Jefferson's 1776 Declaration of Independence.

The public print of his dissertation appeared in 1776.

A Notice subsequently appeared in the Gazette on 13 April 1776, dated from Dublin Castle on 27 March, stating -

The Revolution interrupted him in his collection of Mémoires concernant l ' histoire, les sciences, les lettres, et les arts des Chinois, begun in 1776 at the instance of the minister Bertin, when fifteen volumes had appeared.

In 1969, Daniels starred as John Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 ; he also appeared in the film version in 1972.

The full text of the declaration appeared in the August 15-17th 1776 edition of the newspaper but contained no explanation or comment as to what it was.

Mulligan had participated in acts of rebellion, and his name had appeared on Patriot broadsides distributed in New York as late as 1776.

Other and enlarged editions appeared in 1776 and 1791.

In 1776, Tetens became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kiel, which might have appeared to be his final professional position.

By 1775, Panckoucke had secured a license to publish his supplement, and it appeared as five volumes in 1776 and 1777.

Image: 1789 CastleWilliam BostonHarbor MassachusettsMagazine. jpg | Castle William, as it appeared before its destruction in 1776

Lord Hailes's most important contribution to literature was the Annals of Scotland, of which the first volume, From the accession of Malcolm III, surnamed Canmore, to the accession of Robert I, appeared in 1776, and the second, From the accession of Robert I, surnamed Bruce, to the accession of the house of Stewart, in 1779.

In 1776 appeared his first work on reform in parliament, which, with the exception of Earl Stanhope's pamphlets ( 1774 ), appears to have been the earliest publication on the subject.

But its chief literary glory was Isaac Iselin ( 1728 – 1783 ), one of the founders of the Helvetic Society ( 1760 ) and of the Economical Society ( 1777 ), and author of a treatise on the philosophy of history entitled Geschichte dee Menschheit ( 1764 ), and of another on ideal politics, Philosophische und patriotische Trume eines Menschenfreundes ( 1755 ), while many of his economical tracts appeared ( 1776 – 1782 ) under the general title of Ephemeriden der Menschheit.

Homophony as a term first appeared in English with Charles Burney in 1776, emphasizing the concord of harmonized melody.

A selection of the compositions was published in 1775 The edition was sold out within ten days and a new edition appeared in 1776 with a second volume of poems.

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.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

* 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.

The first people of European descent ( most of whom were born in America, and many of whom were of mixed ancestry ) arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 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.

* 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.

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

* 1776 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece ( d. 1831 )

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.

He also accompanied Cook's third voyage ( 1776 – 1778 ), this time aboard Resolutions sister ship, and the first European sighting and exploration of the Hawaiian Islands.

The gegenschein was first described by the French Jesuit astronomer and professor Esprit Pézenas ( 1692 – 1776 ) in 1730.

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

On July 6, 1776, the first committee for the production of the Great Seal of the United States convened.

* 1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York for the first time.

In 1776, the first engines were installed and working in commercial enterprises.

The first was probably that held on 31 December 1775, and the " Lunar " name is first recorded in 1776.

* 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.

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.

These two forms helped to shape the federal government, first in Switzerland, then in the United States in 1776, in Canada in 1867 and in Germany in 1870 and in the 20th century, Australia.

Porter was first brewed in Ireland in 1776.

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.