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1777 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
- January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch , German sculptor (d. 1857 )
- February 12 - Friedrich De La Motte Fouque , French poet (d. 1843 )
- March 17 - Roger Taney , Chief Justice Of The United States (d. 1864 )
- April 12 - Henry Clay , American statesman (d. 1852 )
- April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss , German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855 )
- August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted , Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851 )
- October 16 - Lorenzo Dow , American Methodist preacher (d. 1834 )
- October 18 - Heinrich Von Kleist , German writer (d. 1811 )
- December 4 - Madame Récamier , French writer (d. 1849 )
- December 23 - Emperor Alexander I Of Russia (d. 1825 )
- Benjamin D'Urban , British general and colonial administrator (d. 1849 )
Deaths
- January 10 - Spranger Barry , Irish actor (b. 1719 )
- January 12 - Hugh Mercer , American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle)
- February 9 - Seth Pomeroy , American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706 )
- February 24 - King Joseph I Of Portugal (b. 1714 )
- March 1 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil , Austrian composer (b. 1715 )
- May 11 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot , British governor of Madras (b. 1719 )
- May 19 - Button Gwinnett , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1735 )
- September 22 - John Bartram , American botanist (b. 1699 )
- September 25 - Johann H. Lambert , mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1728 )
- October 21 - Samuel Foote , English dramatist and actor (b. 1720 )
- November 10 - Cornstalk , Shawnee chief
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