1777

Years: 1774 1775 1776 - 1777 - 1778 1779 1780
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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1777 in art 1777 in literature 1777 in music 1777 in science List of state leaders in 1777 List of religious leaders in 1777

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

The Cornish language died out
2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published
January 3 - 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
January 16 - 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
June 13 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
June 14 - Stars and Stripes adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.
August 16 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
September 3 - American Revolutionary War: The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Maryland.
October 17 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Saratoga- American troops defeat the British.
November 15 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation in the temporary American capital at York, Pennsylvania.
November 29 - San Jose, California founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California.
December 24 - Kiritimati discovered by James Cook
The code duello is adopted at the Clonmell Summer Assizes as the form for pistol duels in Ireland. It is quickly denounced and widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world.

Births

January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor
February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, poet
March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States
April 12 - Henry Clay, American statesman
April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist
August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist
October 16 - Lorenzo Dow, founder of the camp meeting movement
December 4 - Madame Récamier, writer
December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia

Deaths

February 24 - King Joseph I of Portugal
August 16 - Elvis Presley
September 22 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)