It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard, an early printer and publisher of these transcripts.

Cobbett's reports were printed by Thomas Curson Hansard from 1809 ; in 1812, with his business suffering, Cobbett sold the Debates to Hansard.

His son Thomas Curson carried on the business.

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* Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, Volume 23 T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.

* Karen Morgan Thomas mentioned in Hansard

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.

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

" Anticipating the Declaration of Independence, Patriot leaders Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney convinced the Colonial Assembly to declare itself separated from British and Pennsylvania rule on June 15, 1776.

* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

As a young man during the American Revolutionary War, Madison served in the Virginia state legislature ( 1776 – 79 ), where he became known as a protégé of the delegate Thomas Jefferson.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

* 1853 – Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral ( b. 1776 )

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ) English / American pamphleteer, most famous for Common Sense ( 1776 ) calling for American independence as the most rational solution

Image: Johann Christian Bach by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Johann Christian Bach, ( 1776 )

Prior to Independence, Thomas Mifflin was a member of Pennsylvania's Provincial Assembly ( 1772 – 1776 ).

A Commonwealth of Pennsylvania historical marker at the church commemorates both Thomas Wharton and Mifflin, the first and last Presidents of Pennsylvania under the 1776 State Constitution.

In January 1776, just as it became clear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was published.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

* September 9 – Thomas Assheton Smith II, politician and cricketer ( b. 1776 )

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Oroonoko kills Imoinda in a 1776 performance of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko.

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.

* Humphrey Gainsborough ( 1718 – 1776 ), brother of the artist Thomas Gainsborough, was a pastor and inventor who lived in Henley.

* Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk ( 1776 – 1851 ), British peer and politician

On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State.

An English abolitionist, Thomas Day, had earlier written in a 1776 letter:

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.

In his influential 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine echoed this notion, arguing that the American Revolution provided an opportunity to create a new, better society:

On July 14, 1776, Isaiah Thomas, intercepting the packet from Philadelphia to Boston, performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence ever in front of Worcester City Hall.

In 1776, Lieutenant Thomas Rich was selected to represent the town at the General Assembly of Massachusetts.

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

* Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861 – 1862.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1974 – Thomas Tevana, American actor

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician