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1776 Calendar

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•  April 6, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
•  May 1, 1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
•  May 19, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
•  June 12, 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
•  July 4, 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
•  August 2, 1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
•  October 11, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
•  November 29, 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
•  December 5, 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
•  December 19, 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis.

•  February 11, 1776 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831)
•  March 10, 1776 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
•  April 1, 1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
•  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 25, 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1853)
•  November 14, 1776 – Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
•  December 25, 1776 – Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Irish writer (alleged date of birth) (d. 1859)
•  December 27, 1776 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)