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 marriage May 18, 1777
The temperature on May 18, 1777 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 2 » American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
January 3 » American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
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.
June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
July 6 » American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
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