1776-1778 жылдардағы маңызды оқиғалар мен туғандар

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January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second battle at Trenton, New Jersey. January 3 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Princeton: American general George Washington's army defeats British troops. January 13 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what becomes Santa Clara, California. January 15 – Vermont declares its independence from New York, becoming the Vermont Republic, an independent country, a status it retains until it joins the United States as the 14th state in 1791. January 21 – The Continental Congress approves a resolution "that an unauthentic copy, with names of the signers of the Declaration of independence, be sent to each of the United States. February 5 – Under the 1st Constitution of Georgia, 8 counties are chartered: Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond, and Wilkes. This dissolves the existing parishes of St. George, St. Mary's, St. Thomas, St. Phillip, Christ Church, St. David, St. Matthews, St. Andrew, St. James, St. Johns, and St. Paul. February 24 – King Joseph I of Portugal dies, and is succeeded by his daughter Maria I of Portugal, and his brother and son in law Peter III of Portugal. March 4 – The Fourth Continental Congress, with John Hancock as president, begins a 199 day session in Philadelphia, lasting until September 18.

April 1 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's play Sturm und Drang is premiered by the Seyler Theatre Company in Leipzig, giving its name to the whole Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. April 13 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Bound Brook: A British and Hessian force led by Charles Cornwallis surprises a Continental Army outpost in New Jersey, commanded by Major General Benjamin Lincoln. April 27 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Ridgefield: The British Army defeats Patriot militias, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony. May 8 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners, The School for Scandal, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. May 16 – Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later. June 13 – American Revolution: The Marquis de Lafayette lands near Georgetown, South Carolina, to help the Continental Congress train its army. June 14 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the flag of the United States. June 21 – Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition begins publication in Edinburgh.

Suleiman al Halabi, Syrian student, assassin (d. 1800)
Carlos Anaya, Uruguayan politician (d. 1862)
Charles James Apperley, English sportsman, sporting writer (d. 1843)
Carlo Armellini, Italian politician, activist and jurist (d. 1863)
Mevlana Halid i Bagdadi, Ottoman mystic (d. 1826)
Connell James Baldwin, Irish soldier, civil servant (d. 1861)
Karl Friedrich Becker, German educator, historian (d. 1806)
Vicente Benavides, Chilean soldier (d. 1822)
John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer) (d. 1857)
William Bellinger Bulloch, U. S. Senator (d. 1852)
Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (d. 1833)
Abiel Chandler, U. S. philanthropist (d. 1851)
John Claiborne, U. S. politician (d. 1808)
Charles Othon Frédéric Jean Baptiste de Clarac, French artist, scholar and archaeologist (d. 1847)
Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (d. 1804)
Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (d. 1833)
Thomas Day, American judge (d. 1855)
Benjamin D'Urban, British general, colonial administrator (d. 1849)
Tu'i Malila, Malagasy born tortoise, longest living animal on record (d. 1965)

April 7 – Anna Chamber, British noblewoman and poet (b. 1709)
April 29 – Antonio Joli, Italian painter of vedute and capricci (b. 1700)
May 5 – Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, Palestinian rabbi preaching in the Americas (b. 1733)
May 7 – Jean Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, marine captain and colonial administrator in New France (b. 1708)
May 9 – Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (b. 1715)
May 11 – George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
May 19 – Button Gwinnett, a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1735)
May 22 – David Wooster, American general in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1711)
May 28 – William Douglas, American military officer, leading regiments from Connecticut in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1742)
May 31 – Henry Fane of Wormsley, English politician (b. 1703)
June 8 – Cornelia Schlosser, sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to survive to adulthood (b. 1750)
June 21 – Georg Friedrich Meier, German philosopher and aesthetician (b. 1718)