July 2 » Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
September 5 » In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
Day of death September 5, 1776
The temperature on September 5, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
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.
November 16 » American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
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