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Wed Oct 25 2000 at 2:32:27
Born in 1776:
Spanish
chemist
and lawyer, Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo
Avogadro
.
English
painter
John Constable
.
German ewriter
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm Hoffmann
, most famous for
the Nutcracker
(which was later made into a
ballet
by
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
).
French
Mathematician
Sophie Germain
.
Died in 1776:
Scottish philosopher
David Hume
.
English inventor
John Harrison
.
Events of 1776:
American War of Independence
Political activity
(February 14)
Thomas Paine
publishes his
pamphlet
Common Sense
.
(May 15)
Virginia
passes a
Declaration of Rights
*which does not extend to slaves).
(July 4) The
Continental Congress
passes a
Declaration of Independence
from Great Britain. There are approximately 200,000
slaves
in the Thirteen Colonies at this time.
Several states enact
constitution
s at the suggestion of the Contintntal Congress. None of these were submitted to the people for ratification.
New Hampshire
(January 5)
South Carolina
(March 26)
Virginia (June 29)
New Jersey
(July 2)
Delaware
(August 27)
Pennsylvania
(September 28)
Maryland
(November 11)
North Carolina
(December 18)
(December 3) Thomas paine publishes the first installment of his pamphlet
The Crisis
.
(December 12) The Continental Congress abandons
Philadelphia
for
Baltimore
Fighting
(February) George Washington withdraws from
Boston
.
(March) The British fleet leaves Boston.
(March)
Washington
takes positions at
Harlem
Heights and in
Brooklyn
.
(May) The British bring in German reinforcements, which turns New York, a Loyalist hotbed, against them.
(May-June) American troops under
Benedict Arnold
evacuate their positions in (
Canada
) to
Fort Crown Point
on
Lake Champlain
.
(June 28) the British are repulsed from
Charleston
, South Carolina.
(August 27) General
Howe
nearly captures Washington's army at the
Battle of Long Island
.
(September 16) The British take control of
Manhattan
.
(September 21)
Nathan Hale
arrested, and hanged the next day as a spy.
(October) Several naval battles on Lake Champlain force the Americans to abandon Fort Crown Point and retreat back to
Fort Ticonderoga
.
(November)
Fort Washington
and
Fort Lee
(opposite ends of the
George Washington Bridge
) are captured by the British.
(December 6) The British capture
Newport
,
Rhode Island
.
(December 11) Washington retreats into Pennsylvania.
(December 26) Washington ferries 1,000 men across the
Delaware River
and surpirises the
Hessian
garrison of
Trenton
, New Jersey, capturing 600 men along with badly-needed supplies.
Adam Smith
publishes
The Wealth of Nations
.
(June 29)
Mission
San Francisco
de
Asis
founded in
California
.
The Spanish
presidio
in southern
Arizona
is abandoned, and the garrison is moved to a new one at what will become
Tucson
.
1775
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1775
The Great Seal of the United States
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Lees of Old Virginia
George Washington Crossing the Delaware
Jesus Christ Superstar
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Thurgood Marshall On the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Ezekiel 25:17
tricorn
John Walter
Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg
Howard Douglas
The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904
John Dunlap Broadside
Brittish
Stephen Hopkins
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
James Miller
Nathan Hale