January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
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 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 10 » American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
Day of burial July 17, 1776
The temperature on July 17, 1776 was about 23.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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