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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_14, Stars_and_Stripes adopted by Congress as United_States flag
  • forces are defeated by American troops.
  • flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's_Bridge in Maryland.
  • - American troops defeat the British.
  • 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.

    Year in topic

  • 1777_in_science
  • 1777_in_literature
  • 1777_in_music

    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

  • September_22 - John_Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)

    Monarchs/Presidents

  • China - Qianlong Emperor_of_China, Qing_Dynasty (reigned from October_18, 1735 to February_9, 1796)
  • Prussia - Frederick II King_of_Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
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