January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
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.
July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
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.
Day of death December 19, 1776
The temperature on December 19, 1776 was about 2.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Source: KNMI
June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States 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.
August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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