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1776 was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
- Loyalists charge across Moore's Creek bridge near Wilmington to attack what they mistakenly believe to be a small force of rebels. Several loyalist leaders are killed in the ensuing battle. The patriot victory virtually ends all British authority in the colony.
March
April
August
- December 5 - The Phi Beta Kappa society is founded at the College Of William And Mary .
- attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
- becomes the first governor of the newly formed state.
- , living with Washington's troops begins publishing '' The American Crisis '', containing the stirring phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls."
- , cross the Delaware River and land on the Jersey bank at 3 AM.
- at 8 AM outside Trenton and score a victory, taking 1000 prisoners while suffering only 6 wounded.
Births
Deaths
- March 10 - Élie Catherine Fréron , French critic (b. 1719 )
- March 10 - Niclas Sahlgren , Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701 )
- March 26 - Samuel Ward , American politician (b. 1725 )
- March 24 - John Harrison , English clockmaker (b. 1693 )
- April 29 - Edward Wortley Montagu , English traveler and writer (b. 1713 )
- May 4 - Jacques Saly , French sculptor (b. 1717 )
- June 10 - Leopold Widhalm , Austrian luthier (b. 1722 )
- June 20 - Benjamin Huntsman , English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704 )
- July 7 - Jeremiah Markland , English classical scholar (b. 1693 )
- July 10 - Richard Peters , English-born clergyman (b. 1704 )
- August 2 - Louis François I, Prince Of Conti , French military leader (b. 1717 )
- August 25 - David Hume , Scottish philosopher (b. 1711 )
- October 17 - Pierre François Le Courayer , French theologian (b. 1681 )
- November 17 - James Ferguson , Scottish astronomer (b. 1710 )
- Francis Salvador , American patriot (b. 1747 )
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