Also in 1779 Banks took a lease on an estate called Spring Grove, the former residence of Elisha Biscoe ( 1705 – 1776 ), which he eventually bought outright from Biscoe's son also Elisha in 1808.

There was a long-running dispute with Arthur Ingram, who owned Knottingley mill, which started in 1731, and was not finally resolved until 1776, when the company bought both of Ingram's mills.

In 1776, Sheridan, his father-in-law, and one other partner, bought a half interest in the Drury Lane theatre and, two years later, bought out the other half.

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.

The building of the estate on which Kean University is situated began to be built in 1760, when lawyer William Livingston, who would become New Jersey's first elected governor ( on August 31, 1776 ) and a Revolutionary War patriot and signer of the United States Constitution, bought in then-Connecticut Farms and Elizabethtown, New Jersey, across the river from his New York home, in hopes of establishing a country residence.

This attractive, four-storey Georgian villa ( architect: George Gibson ) still lies in its own grounds and was built between 1774 and 1776 for John Julius Angerstein, a Lloyd's underwriter and merchant whose collection of old master paintings was bought for the nation in 1824, following his death, to form the nucleus of the National Gallery, London.

The Georgian building, constructed in 1776 on land leased ( and later bought ) from a local landed aristocrat, still retains its original form.

Between 1776 and 1816, Coke rapidly bought strips of land near his estates and had them enclosed.

Father Pedro Font, while on the de Anza Expedition to found the Presidio of San Francisco in March, 1776 wrote in his diary, " we saw a grove of live oaks near which is the Laguna de la Merced, where Captain Ribera stopped ; and here we saw many bears ( California Grizzly Bear )..." Once owned by Francisco De Haro, first Alcalde of Yerba Buena, as part of the Galindo ranch, the Spring Valley Water Company bought the water rights for the Lake in 1868, and the surrounding watershed in successive years.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, had argued that colonies were redundant, and that free trade should replace the old mercantilist policies that had characterised the first period of colonial expansion, dating back to the protectionism of Spain and Portugal.

Boulton wrote in 1776 that " Mr. Wilkinson has bored us several cylinders almost without error ; that of 50 inches diameter, which we have put up at Tipton, does not err on the thickness of an old shilling in any part ".

On 14 May 1774, when Toup was more than sixty years old, he was appointed by Bishop Keppel to a prebendal stall at Exeter and was admitted on 29 July 1776 to the vicarage of St. Merryn, the parish in which he had been partly educated.

A woman of Earl Shilton parish declared ‘ that she had been bewitched by an old woman from Aston in 1776.

A woman of Earl Shilton parish declared ‘ that she had been bewitched by an old woman from Aston in 1776.

Other sights include the rare stone buildings of the Old Rauma: the Church of the Holy Cross, an old Franciscan monastery church from the 15th century with medieval paintings and the old town hall from 1776.

By 1776 the old order had been overthrown, as Marylanders signed the Declaration of Independence, forcing the end of British colonial rule.

After elections in May 1776 returned old guard Assemblymen to office, the Second Continental Congress encouraged Pennsylvania to call delegates together to discuss a new form of governance.

Elections in 1776 turned the old assemblymen out of power.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, had argued that colonies were redundant, and that free trade should replace the old mercantilist policies that had characterised the first period of colonial expansion, dating back to the protectionism of Spain and Portugal.

By early 1776, as the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger recorded, Gelelemend had been " designated " as the successor to Netawatwees, who was thought to be close to 100 years old.

When they ran out of prisons in 1776 they used old sailing vessels which came to be called hulks as places of temporary confinement.

In 1776, a church was built closer to the centre of Rush to replace the old chapel.

Henry's sons carried on his gun business, in Lancaster, in Philadelphia, in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and then in Boulton, PA. One of his sons, John Joseph Henry, served as a sixteen year old rifleman on Benedict Arnold's march on Quebec in the fall and winter of 1775 ( he was captured and imprisoned for much of 1776 ), and later served as president judge of the second District in Pennsylvania from 1795-1811.

Born in Horn, Austria, he worked on many old Bologna lutes that inspired his later work in his manufacture of lutes, violins and violoncellos in Nuremberg, Germany between 1746 and 1776.

On 8 July 1776 he asked Lord Rockingham to arrange for a remonstrance to be sent to the King when war broke out in America, so the Americans would see " that there is still in the country a body of men of the first rank and importance, who would still wish to govern them according to the old policy ".

In September 1776, eager to work on creating the new government and dismantle the feudal aspects of the old, Jefferson returned to Virginia and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates for Albemarle County.

His father was a minister who built and inhabited The Old Manse at Concord, chaplain to the Provincial Congress when it met at Concord in October 1774, and when war had begun a chaplain to the Continental Army, dying of camp fever while on campaign in 1776 when Emerson was but 7 years old.

His father Jose Joaquin Castro ( 1768 – 1838 ), came to California as a 6 year old with his family from Sinaloa Mexico on the 1775 – 1776 Anza Expedition.

Liang's first experience participating in the restoration of an old building was in 1932, when he was asked to restore a two-story imperial library, the Wenyuan Chamber, erected in 1776 in the southwestern part of the Forbidden City.

His observation of the models executed by different sculptors of eminence, which were sent to be fired at an adjoining pottery, determined the direction of his genius ; he imitated them with so much success that in 1758 a small figure of Peace sent by him to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts received a prize, and the highest premiums given by that society were adjudged to him nine times between the years 1763 and 1776.

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.

During the summer of 1776, the Americans, under the direction of General Schuyler, and later under General Horatio Gates, added substantial defensive works to the area.

Bach's choral output reached its apex in two works: the double chorus Heilig ( Holy, Holy, Holy ) of 1776, a setting of the seraph song from the throne scene in Isaiah, and the grand cantata Die Auferstehung Jesu ( The Resurrection of Jesus ) of 1774-1782, which sets a poetic Gospel harmonization by the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler ( 1725-1798 ).

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.

Between 1733 and 1776, Arne wrote music for about 90 stage works, including plays, masques, pantomimes, and opera.

His works are ( 1746 ), ( 1749 ), ( 1754 ), ( 1755 ), a comprehensive Cours d ' études ( 1767 – 1773 ) in 13 vols., written for the young Duke Ferdinand of Parma, a grandson of Louis XV, ( 1776 ), and two posthumous works, ( 1781 ) and the unfinished ( 1798 ).

Cullen also published a few, shorter works ( e. g. " A Letter to Lord Cathcart " in 1776 ), which have not been included in this list.

Mylne received his final payment for the works, of £ 4, 209, in 1776, and held the post of surveyor until his death, but the bridge had to be replaced in 1869, after the rebuilding of London Bridge in 1831 affected the flow of the river.

Defensive works were raised on the island in 1776 by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, and fired upon British ships before they were taken.

Sparrman published several works, the best known of which is his account of his travels in South Africa and with Cook, published in English as A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776 ( 1789 ).

It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ), Essays on Philosophical Subjects ( 1795 ), and Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms ( 1763 ) ( first published in 1896 ).

This contained the works of Gildas and Nennius and the full text of the forgery, and though Bertram's map did not correspond with that of Richard, Stukeley discarded the latter and adopted Bertram's concoction in his Itinerarium Curiosum posthumously published in 1776.

Among her significant works is a symphony for two oboes, two flutes, two violins, and double bass ( 1765 ), a tripartite oratorio ( 1768 ), a Singspiel called Erwin und Elmire ( 1776 ), based on a text by Goethe, and a divertimento for piano, clarinet, viola, and violoncello ( around 1780 ).

Having secured contracts with several owners of limestone quarries in the Caldon Low area, the company sought an Act of Parliament to authorise construction of the new works, which it obtained in May 1776.

By 1776, Milne had moved to New Orleans, Louisiana where, after doing well in the hardware business, he set up a brick making company using mainly slave labour — by the late 18th century most of the brick used in New Orleans was made at his works.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Other works by Chandler were Inscriptiones Antiquae pleraeque nondum editae ( Oxford, 1774 ); Travels in Asia Minor ( 1775 ); Travels in Greece ( 1776 ); History of Ilium ( 1803 ), in which he asserted the accuracy of Homer's geography.

The last of the direct descendants of Simon Grynaeus was his namesake Simon ( 1725 – 1799 ), translator into German of French and English anti-deistical works, and author of a version of the Bible in modern German ( 1776 ).

The works were taken over by Abraham Darby III of the Coalbrookdale Company in 1776.

Under Alexander Ypsilantis, large-scale works to provide the city with fresh water were carried out, and Curtea Veche, destroyed by the previous conflicts, was replaced by a new residence in Dealul Spirii ( Curtea Nouă, 1776 ); his legacy was carried out by Nicholas Mavrogenes.

Category: 1776 works

His chief works are the Description des glacières de Savoye, 1773 ( English translation, Norwich, 1775 – 1776 ), the Description des Alpes pennines et rhétiennes ( 2 vols., 1781 ), and the Descriptions des cols ou passages des Alpes, ( 2 vols., 1803 ), while his Itinéraire de Genève, Lausanne et Chamouni, first published in 1791, went through several editions in his lifetime.

She would continue displaying her works at the Académie de Saint-Luc until it closed in 1776.