1776 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1776?
- March 3, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
- March 28, 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- April 6, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
- April 12, 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
- April 13, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- May 1, 1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
- June 8, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- June 28, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Moultrie is attacked during the Battle of Sullivan’s Island; this event is commemorated in Carolina Day.
- 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 11, 1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- August 10, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- September 9, 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- September 22, 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- October 7, 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- October 28, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
- November 16, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- December 5, 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
- December 7, 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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