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•  January 1, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
•  March 4, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
•  April 7, 1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
•  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.
•  July 4, 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
•  August 27, 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
•  September 7, 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
•  October 9, 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.

•  January 10, 1776 – George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841)
•  January 24, 1776 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
•  March 10, 1776 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
•  April 1, 1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
•  April 25, 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
•  May 20, 1776 – Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (d.1862)
•  June 11, 1776 – John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
•  July 13, 1776 – Caroline of Baden, consort of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1841)
•  August 9, 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
•  December 27, 1776 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)