1777
Published on Monday, September 1st 2008. Edited by Ban Cartubdug, Palo Alto, United States.
Centuries: 17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1774 1775 1776 – 1777 – 1778 1779 1780
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)
- 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
Months and days of the year
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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