January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
Day of death January 23, 1776
The temperature on January 23, 1776 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
April 7 » Captain John Barry and the USSLexington captures the Edward.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
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 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
Day of burial January 25, 1776
The temperature on January 25, 1776 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
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.
August 31 » William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
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).
September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
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