In 1776, he stated that Hadrian's era was part of the " happiest era of human history ".

In Lee's Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain, which read ( in part ):

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.

The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

* Old Nassau Fort in The Bahamas, under British control, which played a small part in a naval action and amphibious landing during the American Revolutionary War in 1776.

In the winter of 1775 and 1776, the Rhode Island Legislature put militia General William West in charge of rooting out loyalists in Newport, and several notable individuals such as Joseph Wanton and Thomas Vernon were exiled to the northern part of the state.

Early residents referred to it as ‘ Funck ’ s Jerusalem Town ’ which became part of Washington County in 1776.

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

In 1776 the western part of Plaistow became a separate town, Atkinson.

These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.

The Randall burial plot near the William Floyd Parkway includes the grave of LT Stephen Randall ( 1736 – 1818 ), patriot of the American Revolution and a Suffolk County Militia veteran of the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 as part of a company of Suffolk County Minutemen commanded by Captain Daniel Mulford, his wife Elizabeth Swezey ( 1747 – 1834 ) and several descendants.

In 1776, Morton became part of Ridley Township and Springfield Township.

From about 1776 to the mid-1850s the Old Spanish Trail came up from Santa Fe, New Mexico, crossed the Colorado River at Moab, over the Green River where Green River City now stands, across the San Rafael desert into Castle Valley, then crossed along the eastern part of the town.

Originally located within King George County, Falmouth became part of Stafford County when county lines were redrawn in 1776.

He took an active part in the movements in Connecticut preceding the War of Independence, was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1772, and from 1774 to 1776 was a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress.

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 ".

After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which marked the official beginning of the American national identity, the new nation needed a history, and part of that history would be expressed visually.

After taking part in the expedition to aid Charleston in 1776 and 1777, Nash ( now in command of the North Carolina Brigade ) marched north to join General George Washington's Army and commanded the 1st North Carolina Regiment at the Battle of Brandywine.

The Siege of Boston ( April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776 ) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen — who later became part of the Continental Army — surrounded the town of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army garrisoned within.

Washington was elected a Captain of Stafford County Minutemen on September 12, 1775, and became part of the 3rd Virginia Regiment, Continental Line on February 25, 1776, commanding its 7th Company.

The Battle of Valcour Island was fought in Lake Champlain in the eastern part of Peru in 1776.

For the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence, he was part of the North Carolina delegation that included Joseph Hewes and William Hooper.

* Otocolobus manul manul ( Pallas, 1776 ) — inhabits the northern part of the range: Jida River, south of Lake Baikal, eastern Siberia ;

The phrase was recommended by George Mason to the Virginia Convention in 1776, as part of the state's seal.

On the night of December 25, 1776, Washington staged a comeback with a surprise attack on a Hessian outpost in western New Jersey.

Jefferson's proposal to create a federal domain through state cessions of western lands was derived from earlier proposals dating back to 1776 and debates about the Articles of Confederation.

From 1776 to 1815 Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury made 42 trips into the western parts to visit Methodist congregations.

In 1776, American colonists Gilbert Martin ( Henry Fonda ) and Lana Borst ( Claudette Colbert ) marry and leave her luxurious home in Albany, New York for a small farm in Deerfield on the western frontier of the Mohawk Valley in central New York.

In 1776, patriot colonists built several forts to defend the western banks of the Hudson.

In 1776 the Dutch East India Company established an outpost for the provision of timber ; its location is thought to be near the western end of York Street.

Formed from the District of West Augusta, Virginia, in 1776.

Monongalia County was formed in 1776 when Virginia's remote District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio, Yohogania and Monongalia, all named for their most prominent rivers.

In an apparent effort to strengthen its political control of the area, in November 1776 Virginia reorganized the District of West Augusta into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County.

Augusta County sent him to the Virginia conventions ( the revolutionary legislature ) in 1775 and 1776.

In 1776, shortly after the American Revolutionary War began, the Virginia General Assembly formed three new counties from the District of West Augusta, an area of Augusta County, Virginia, which encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.

* VA / PA Boundary Rootsweb article and map concerning the boundary dispute, with official descriptions of the boundaries of the three counties formed from the District of West Augusta in 1776, with a map of the three counties overlaid upon a modern map.

Map of the District of West Augusta and the three counties formed from it in 1776.

In 1776, the District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County.

On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the largest and most populous county in Maryland, would be divided into three smaller units.

In 1776, Frederick County was divided into three parts.

On August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island ( also called the Battle of Brooklyn ) was fought in Kings County.

Washington County was formed on October 1, 1776 by the division of Frederick County.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years subsequent to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to the outbreak of revolution in 1776, tensions rose in the frontier areas upstate and most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.