March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.
Christening day March 1, 1776
The temperature on March 1, 1776 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
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.
September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
September 21 » Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
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