* R 1. 54 Nitteti ( 28. 1. 1777 St. Petersburg )

Faced with bombardment from the heights ( even before any shots had been fired from those cannons ), General St. Clair ordered Ticonderoga abandoned on July 5, 1777.

The title St. Leger Stakes was decided at a dinner party held in 1777 to discuss the following year's race.

Effingham was among the original counties of the state of Georgia, created February 5, 1777 from the colonial parishes of St. Matthew and St. Phillip.

File: 20 St James's Square-elevation of the offices towards the back court 1777. jpg | 20 St. James's Square, London, rear facade

File: Wynn House Dining Room ceiling 1777. jpg | Dining Room ceiling, 20 St. James's Square, London

She served in the American War of Independence from 1777 and was part of the fleet that captured St Lucia and won victories at Battle of St. Kitts and The Saintes.

In 1777, however, St Germain fell into disgrace, and his fall involved that of Guibert who was promoted to the rank of maréchal de camp and relegated to a provincial staff appointment.

In 1777 a new Church of Ireland church was erected on the site of the earlier church of St. Ultan's.

He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner ; became Vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire in 1750 ; Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor in 1762 ( to 1776 ); a member of the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in 1777 ; Bishop of Carlisle in 1787 ( and also Dean of Windsor in 1788 ); and Bishop of Salisbury in 1791.

He became minister of Saxe-Gotha at the court of France in 1776, but in 1777 he again left Paris on a visit to St Petersburg, where he remained for nearly a year in daily intercourse with Catherine.

On the death of Louis XV in 1774, Rohan was recalled from Vienna, and coldly received in Paris ; but his family's influence was too great for him to be neglected ; in 1777 he was made grand almoner, and in 1778, abbot of St. Vaast.

But in 1777, Congress blamed Schuyler and St. Clair for the loss of Fort Ticonderoga, though Gates had exercised a lengthy command in the region.

On June 13, 1777, Burgoyne and Carleton reviewed the assembled forces at St. John's on the Richelieu River, just north of Lake Champlain, and Burgoyne was ceremonially given command.

When d ' Emery died in 1777, de Bouillé was awarded with the governorships of Martinique and St. Lucia, with authority to take full command of the French West Indies in the event France joined the American War of Independence.

He was an Anglican priest of Irish extraction, born on St Patrick's Day 17 March 1777.

Located at the heart of the Waldo Patent, Thomaston was incorporated from St. Georges Plantation on March 20, 1777.

He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician ( d. 1855 )

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

* 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1830 )

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

* First Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1777 between Spain and Portugal.

* 1777 – Hyacinth, Chuvash founder of Sinology ( d. 1853 )

He was also the first to establish that sulfur was an element ( 1777 ) rather than a compound.

In " Mémoire sur la combustion en général " (" On Combustion in General ," 1777 ) and " Considérations générales sur la nature des acides " (" General Considerations on the Nature of Acids ," 1778 ), he demonstrated that the " air " responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity.

* 1864 – Charles Lot Church, Canadian politician ( b. 1777 )

A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Phillip played a leading part in the capture of the Spanish ship San Agustín ( 1768 ), on 19 April 1777, off Santa Catarina.

In 1777, boric acid was recognized in the hot springs ( soffioni ) near Florence, Italy, and became known as sal sedativum, with mainly medical uses.

Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen ( 1771 – 1848 ) and Karl von Grolman ( 1777 – 1843 ) were Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814.