* 1777: Wenzel publishes Lessons on Affinity, in which he demonstrates that the proportions of the " base component " and the " acid component " ( cation and anion in modern terminology ) remain the same during reactions between two neutral salts.

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.

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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.

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.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Braunschweig ( Brunswick ), in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, now part of Lower Saxony, Germany, as the son of poor working-class parents.

The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.

When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

Another consideration was that the Flag Resolution of 1777, which defined official United States flags, did not specify the arrangement of stars.

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.

The office of Governor was established by the first New York State Constitution in 1777 to coincide with the calendar year.

In 1777, the number of electors was reduced to eight when the Elector Palatine inherited Bavaria.

Creator of the Argentine Navy ( Armada de la República Argentina, ARA ) and leader of the Argentine Armed Forces in the wars against Brazil and Spain, he was born in Foxford, County Mayo on June 22, 1777 and died in Buenos Aires in 1857.

In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston, but instead was offered the command of the Queen's Rangers, a well-trained light infantry unit comprising 11 companies of 30 men, 1 grenadier and 1 hussar, and the rest light infantry.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

Hanson was elected to the newly reformed Maryland House of Delegates in 1777, the first of five annual terms.

The first guidebook to the castle, A Concise history and description of Kenilworth Castle, was printed in 1777 with many later editions following in the coming decades.

Christmas Island was discovered by Captain James Cook on Christmas Eve ( 24 December ) 1777.

In 1777, the Provisional Assembly of the State of North Carolina declared the state sovereign over all the lands between Virginia and South Carolina, although it recognized claims to land granted by the crown and proprietors prior to July 4, 1776.

From 1772 to 1777, Luísa lived in Oporto, where she was a singer and a singing teacher and where she began to be recognized as an artist of stature.

* Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord ( 1777 – 1816 ), ( not recognized from 1790 ; Archbishop of Paris from 1817 – 1821 )

There he remained while Vermont declared independence, and John Burgoyne's campaign for the Hudson River met a stumbling block near Bennington in August 1777.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

There are red markers depicting the position of John Burgoyne's army near Saratoga at the time of its surrender in 1777.

He was named after his paternal grandfather, who was killed in 1777 at his home near today's Rogersville, Tennessee, by Cherokee Indians led by Dragging Canoe.

" Pulaski departed France from Nantes in June, and arrived in America, in Marblehead, Massachusetts near Boston, on 23 July 1777.

In 1777, a party of 350 Wyandots, Shawnees and Mingos, armed by the British, attacked Fort Henry, near present-day Wheeling.

It was named to commemorate the 1777 Battle of Bennington, an American Revolutionary War battle fought in New York near Bennington, Vermont.

He landed on North Island near Georgetown, South Carolina, on 13 June 1777.

In late July 1777, after a distressing 34-day journey from Sandy Hook on the coast of New Jersey, a Royal Navy fleet of more than 260 ships carrying some 17, 000 British troops under the command of British General Sir William Howe landed at the head of the Elk River, on the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay near present-day Elkton, Maryland ( then known as Head of Elk ), approximately 40 – 50 miles ( 60 – 80 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

In 1777 he retired, and died on 24 June 1778 at Santhorst, near Wassenaar.

On 11 September 1777, Howe's army met Washington's near Chadds Ford along the Brandywine Creek in the Battle of Brandywine.

The Battle of Princeton ( January 3, 1777 ) was a battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey.

His second wife Susanna died near the end of 1777 during the American Revolutionary War, when they were staying at Fort Niagara.

By January 1777, he retained only a few outposts near New York City.

There are red markers depicting the position of John Burgoyne's army near Saratoga at the time of its surrender in 1777.

In September 1777, Lincoln joined Horatio Gates's camp near Saratoga, where he commanded the right side of the American line.

He then tried to join up with Burgoyne's army near Saratoga, but had only reached Fort Ticonderoga by the time Burgoyne surrendered his army in October 1777.

The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between 2 and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York.

Howe was successful in driving Washington out of New York City, but overextended his reach into New Jersey, and ended the active campaign season in January 1777 with only a few outposts near the city.

In 1777 Bushnell attempted to use a floating mine to blow up the HMS Cerberus in Niantic Bay ; the mine struck a small boat near the Cerberus and detonated, destroying the vessel, but not the intended target.

In August 1777, as General William Howe began his campaign to capture Philadelphia, American soldiers arrived at Penn's Lansdowne estate near Philadelphia and demanded that he sign a parole stating that he would do nothing to harm the revolutionary cause.

When the British occupied Philadelphia in 1777, he withdrew to his father's property near Trenton, New Jersey.