May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
Christening day November 3, 1776
The temperature on November 3, 1776 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
Day of death October 24, 1777
The temperature on October 24, 1777 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
June 13 » American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
August 22 » British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
October 6 » American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
November 15 » American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
December 17 » American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
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