1776 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1776?
- January 10, 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- February 27, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- May 4, 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- May 19, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
- June 7, 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
- June 11, 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.
- June 12, 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
- June 15, 1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
- June 28, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- July 2, 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
- July 4, 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- July 9, 1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City for the first time.
- August 10, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- September 10, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- September 11, 1776 – British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
- September 16, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- September 21, 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
- October 26, 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- December 5, 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
- December 26, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
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