1777

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Year 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1777

January - June

  • January 3 - American Revolution: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
  • January 12 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
June 14: US Flag (had various star patterns)
June 14: US Flag (had various star patterns)
  • January 15 - Vermont declares its independence from New York becoming an independent country, a status it retained until it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791.
  • 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: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina to help the Continental Congress train its army.
  • June 14 - Stars and Stripes adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.

July - December

  • August 16 - American Revolution: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
  • September 3 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
  • September 11 - Battle of Brandywine - Major American Revolutionary war victory for British in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
  • September 19 - American Revolution: First Battle of Saratoga/ Battle of Freeman's Farm/ Battle of Bemis Heights.
  • October 4 - American Revolution: Battle of Germantown- Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
  • October 17 - American Revolution: Battle of Saratoga- American troops defeat the British.
  • November 15 - American Revolution: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation in the temporary American capital at York, Pennsylvania.
  • November 17 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
  • November 29 - San Jose, California founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California.
  • December - Death of Dolly Pentreath, claimed to be the last speaker of the Cornish language.
  • December 19 - American Revolution: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
  • December 24 - Kiritimati discovered by James Cook.

Undated

  • The 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
  • The code duello is adopted at the Clonmell Summer Assizes as the form for pistol duels in Ireland. It is quickly denounced but nevertheless widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world.


Births

1777 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1777
MDCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita 2530
Armenian calendar 1226
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԶ
Bahá'í calendar -67 – -66
Berber calendar 2727
Buddhist calendar 2321
Burmese calendar 1139
Chinese calendar 4413/4473-11-22
( 丙申年十一月廿二日)
— to —
4414/4474-12-2
( 丁酉年十二月初二日)
Coptic calendar 1493 – 1494
Ethiopian calendar 1769 – 1770
Hebrew calendar 5537 – 5538
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1832 – 1833
 - Shaka Samvat 1699 – 1700
 - Kali Yuga 4878 – 4879
Holocene calendar 11777
Iranian calendar 1155 – 1156
Islamic calendar 1190 – 1191
Japanese calendar An'ei 6
(安永6年)
Korean calendar 4110
Thai solar calendar 2320
  • October 1 - Zaro Aga d.(1934)
  • January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
  • January 5 - Robert Hart, Father of the British 1820 settlers to South Africa (d. 1867)
  • 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)
  • June 12 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
  • 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)
  • date unknown - 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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