
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1774 1775 1776 - 1777 - 1778 1779 1780 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
|} 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==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 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. * August 16 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - United Kingdom forces are defeated by United States troops. * September 3 - American Revolutionary War: The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Delaware. * 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 Spain 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 but nevertheless widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world. ==Births== * January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857) * February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, French poet (d. 1843) * March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1864) * April 12 - Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852) * April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855) * 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 Recamier, French writer (d. 1849) * December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825) ==Deaths== * February 24 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714) * May 19 - Button Gwinnett * September 22 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699) 1777 os:1777
== years page layout== I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. However pre 1800 the change is largely cosmetic. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 19:33, 10 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1774 1775 1776 - 1777 - 1778 1779 1780 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
|} 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==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 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. * August 16 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - United Kingdom forces are defeated by United States troops. * September 3 - American Revolutionary War: The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Delaware. * 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 Spain 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 but nevertheless widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world. ==Births== * January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857) * February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, French poet (d. 1843) * March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1864) * April 12 - Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852) * April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855) * 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 Recamier, French writer (d. 1849) * December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825) ==Deaths== * February 24 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714) * May 19 - Button Gwinnett * September 22 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699) 1777 os:1777
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== years page layout== I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. However pre 1800 the change is largely cosmetic. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 19:33, 10 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
1777
1770s
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