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Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%E1%8A%A5.%E1%8A%A4.%E1%8A%A0." title="1776 እ.ኤ.አ. – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="1776 እ.ኤ.አ." data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Anarâškielâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Аԥсшәа</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D5%A9%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6" title="1776 թուական – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="1776 թուական" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B1%DB%B7%DB%B7%DB%B6_(%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C)" title="۱۷۷۶ (میلادی) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="۱۷۷۶ (میلادی)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AD%E0%A7%AD%E0%A7%AC" title="১৭৭৬ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="১৭৭৬" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_n%C3%AE" title="1776 nî – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="1776 nî" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B9%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1776 йыл – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="1776 йыл" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BC%A1%E0%BC%A7%E0%BC%A7%E0%BC%A6%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8D" title="༡༧༧༦ལོ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="༡༧༧༦ལོ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776." title="1776. – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="1776." data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pdc mw-list-item"><a href="https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Pennsylvania German" lang="pdc" hreflang="pdc" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Deitsch" data-language-local-name="Pennsylvania German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deitsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B8%D0%B5" title="1776 ие – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="1776 ие" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B1%DB%B7%DB%B7%DB%B6_(%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C)" title="۱۷۷۶ (میلادی) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="۱۷۷۶ (میلادی)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%E5%B9%B4" title="1776年 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="1776年" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776-ngi%C3%A8n" title="1776-ngièn – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="1776-ngièn" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%EB%85%84" title="1776년 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="1776년" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AC" title="१७७६ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="१७७६" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776." title="1776. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="1776." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AD%E0%A7%AD%E0%A7%AC" title="মারি ১৭৭৬ – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="মারি ১৭৭৬" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776-%C3%A6%D0%BC_%D0%B0%D0%B7" title="1776-æм аз – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="1776-æм аз" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%AD%E0%B3%AD%E0%B3%AC" title="೧೭೭೬ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="೧೭೭೬" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1776 джыл – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="1776 джыл" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1776 жыл – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="1776 жыл" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776-%D3%A7%D0%B4_%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="1776-ӧд во – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="1776-ӧд во" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(almanak_gregoryen)" title="1776 (almanak gregoryen) – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="1776 (almanak gregoryen)" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B8" title="1776 и – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="1776 и" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776._gads" title="1776. gads – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="1776. gads" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B9%D0%B8%D1%81" title="1776 йис – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="1776 йис" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лезги</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_m." title="1776 m. – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="1776 m." data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AC" title="१७७६ – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="१७७६" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8._%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AC" title="इ.स. १७७६ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इ.स. १७७६" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B1%DB%B7%DB%B7%DB%B6" title="۱۷۷۶ – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="۱۷۷۶" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_ni%C3%A8ng" title="1776 nièng – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="1776 nièng" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%81%81%E1%81%87%E1%81%87%E1%81%86" title="၁၇၇၆ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="၁၇၇၆" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D_%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AC" title="सन् १७७६ – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="सन् १७७६" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%E5%B9%B4" title="1776年 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="1776年" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AD%E0%AD%AD%E0%AD%AC" title="୧୭୭୬ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="୧୭୭୬" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AC" title="१७७६ – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="१७७६" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>पालि</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="1776 год – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="1776 год" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AC" title="१७७६ – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="१७७६" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%D8%B9" title="1776ع – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="1776ع" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%A1%D9%A7%D9%A7%D9%A6" title="١٧٧٦ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="١٧٧٦" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776." title="1776. – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="1776." data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="1776 ел – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="1776 ел" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="တႆး" data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>တႆး</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9E.%E0%B8%A8._2319" title="พ.ศ. 2319 – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="พ.ศ. 2319" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8_1776" title="Соли 1776 – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Соли 1776" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᏣᎳᎩ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%D8%A1" title="1776ء – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="1776ء" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Volapük</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Walon</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%83%E4%B8%83%E5%85%AD%E5%B9%B4" title="一七七六年 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="一七七六年" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>文言</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>West-Vlams</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%E5%B9%B4" title="1776年 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="1776年" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="1776" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ייִדיש</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776%E5%B9%B4" title="1776年 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="1776年" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-diq mw-list-item"><a href="https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776 – Dimli" lang="diq" hreflang="diq" 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href="/wiki/1776_in_the_United_States" title="1776 in the United States">United States</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #f3f3f3"> Lists of leaders</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1776" class="mw-redirect" title="List of state leaders in 1776">State leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_dependent_territories_in_the_18th_century" title="List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century">Colonial governors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_18th-century_religious_leaders" title="List of 18th-century religious leaders">Religious leaders</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #f3f3f3"> Birth and death categories</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1776_births" title="Category:1776 births">Births</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:1776_deaths" title="Category:1776 deaths">Deaths</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #f3f3f3"> Establishments and disestablishments categories</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1776_establishments" title="Category:1776 establishments">Establishments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:1776_disestablishments" title="Category:1776 disestablishments">Disestablishments</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #f3f3f3"> Works category</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1776_works" title="Category:1776 works">Works</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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condita</a></td><td>2529</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_calendar" title="Armenian calendar">Armenian calendar</a></td><td>1225<br />ԹՎ ՌՄԻԵ</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_calendar" title="Assyrian calendar">Assyrian calendar</a></td><td>6526</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Balinese_saka_calendar" title="Balinese saka calendar">Balinese saka calendar</a></td><td>1697–1698</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bengali_calendar" title="Bengali calendar">Bengali calendar</a></td><td>1182–1183</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Berber_calendar" title="Berber calendar">Berber calendar</a></td><td>2726</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Regnal_years_of_English_and_British_monarchs" title="Regnal years of English and British monarchs">British Regnal year</a></td><td>16 <a href="/wiki/George_III" title="George III">Geo. 3</a> – 17 <a href="/wiki/George_III" title="George III">Geo. 3</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_calendar" title="Buddhist calendar">Buddhist calendar</a></td><td>2320</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Burmese_calendar" title="Burmese calendar">Burmese calendar</a></td><td>1138</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_calendar" title="Byzantine calendar">Byzantine calendar</a></td><td>7284–7285</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle" title="Sexagenary cycle">乙未</a>年 (Wood <a href="/wiki/Goat_(zodiac)" title="Goat (zodiac)">Goat</a>)<br />4473 or 4266<br />    <i>— to —</i><br />丙申年 (Fire <a href="/wiki/Monkey_(zodiac)" title="Monkey (zodiac)">Monkey</a>)<br />4474 or 4267</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Coptic_calendar" title="Coptic calendar">Coptic calendar</a></td><td>1492–1493</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Discordian_calendar" title="Discordian calendar">Discordian calendar</a></td><td>2942</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar" title="Ethiopian calendar">Ethiopian calendar</a></td><td>1768–1769</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_calendar" title="Hebrew calendar">Hebrew calendar</a></td><td>5536–5537</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hindu_calendar" title="Hindu calendar">Hindu calendars</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td> - <i><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Samvat" title="Vikram Samvat">Vikram Samvat</a></i></td><td>1832–1833</td></tr><tr><td> - <i><a href="/wiki/Indian_national_calendar" title="Indian national calendar">Shaka Samvat</a></i></td><td>1697–1698</td></tr><tr><td> - <i><a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></i></td><td>4876–4877</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Holocene_calendar" title="Holocene calendar">Holocene calendar</a></td><td>11776</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Igbo_calendar" title="Igbo calendar">Igbo calendar</a></td><td>776–777</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Iranian_calendars" title="Iranian calendars">Iranian calendar</a></td><td>1154–1155</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic calendar</a></td><td>1189–1190</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Japanese_calendar" title="Japanese calendar">Japanese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/An%27ei" title="An'ei">An'ei</a> 5<br />(安永５年)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Javanese_calendar" title="Javanese calendar">Javanese calendar</a></td><td>1701–1702</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a></td><td>Gregorian minus 11 days</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Korean_calendar" title="Korean calendar">Korean calendar</a></td><td>4109</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minguo_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Minguo calendar">Minguo calendar</a></td><td>136 before <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" title="Republic of China (1912–1949)">ROC</a><br />民前136年</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Nanakshahi_calendar" title="Nanakshahi calendar">Nanakshahi calendar</a></td><td>308</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar" title="Thai solar calendar">Thai solar calendar</a></td><td>2318–2319</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_calendar" title="Tibetan calendar">Tibetan calendar</a></td><td>阴木羊年<br />(female Wood-<a href="/wiki/Goat_(zodiac)" title="Goat (zodiac)">Goat</a>)<br />1902 or 1521 or 749<br />    <i>— to —</i><br />阳火猴年<br />(male Fire-<a href="/wiki/Monkey_(zodiac)" title="Monkey (zodiac)">Monkey</a>)<br />1903 or 1522 or 750</td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output 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numerals">MDCCLXXVI</a>) was a <a href="/wiki/Leap_year_starting_on_Monday" title="Leap year starting on Monday">leap year starting on Monday</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Leap_year_starting_on_Friday" title="Leap year starting on Friday">leap year starting on Friday</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a>, the 1776th year of the <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">Common Era</a> (CE) and <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">Anno Domini</a></i></span> (AD) designations, the 776th year of the <a href="/wiki/2nd_millennium" title="2nd millennium">2nd millennium</a>, the 76th year of the <a href="/wiki/18th_century" title="18th century">18th century</a>, and the 7th year of the <a href="/wiki/1770s" title="1770s">1770s</a> decade. As of the start of 1776, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. </p><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Calendar year</div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January–February"><span id="January.E2.80.93February"></span>January–February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: January–February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Norfolk" title="Burning of Norfolk">Burning of Norfolk</a>: The town of <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a> is destroyed, by the combined actions of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> and occupying <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> forces.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a> publishes his pamphlet <i><a href="/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Common Sense (pamphlet)">Common Sense</a></i>, arguing for independence from British rule in the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> <a href="/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalists</a> led by Robert Cunningham sign a petition from prison, agreeing to all demands for peace by the formed state government of South Carolina.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_24" title="January 24">January 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Knox" title="Henry Knox">Henry Knox</a> arrives at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery" title="Noble train of artillery">artillery that he has transported</a> from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">February 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a> publishes the first volume of <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire">The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge" title="Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge">Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge</a>: Scottish <a href="/wiki/Royal_Colony_of_North_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Colony of North Carolina">North Carolina</a> Loyalists charge across Moore's Creek Bridge near <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_North_Carolina" title="Wilmington, North Carolina">Wilmington</a>, to attack what they mistakenly believe to be a small force of rebels. Several leaders are killed in the ensuing battle. The patriot victory<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology330331_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology330331-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> virtually ends all British authority in the province.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March–April"><span id="March.E2.80.93April"></span>March–April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: March–April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March" title="March">March</a> – Restrictions on the <a href="/wiki/Grain_trade" title="Grain trade">cereal trade</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> are lifted.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a>–<a href="/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">3</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nassau" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Nassau">Battle of Nassau</a>: The American <a href="/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Continental_Marines" title="Continental Marines">Marines</a> make a successful assault on <a href="/wiki/Nassau,_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Nassau, Bahamas">Nassau, Bahamas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rice_Boats" title="Battle of the Rice Boats">Battle of the Rice Boats</a>: American <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriots</a> resist the Royal Navy on the <a href="/wiki/Savannah_River" title="Savannah River">Savannah River</a>; British control over the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Georgia" title="Province of Georgia">Province of Georgia</a> is lost.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">American Patriots</a> <a href="/wiki/Fortification_of_Dorchester_Heights" title="Fortification of Dorchester Heights">capture</a> <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Heights" title="Dorchester Heights">Dorchester Heights</a>, dominating the port of <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a> economist <a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Adam Smith</a> publishes <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations" title="The Wealth of Nations">The Wealth of Nations</a></i> in London.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – Threatened by <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> cannons on <a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Heights" title="Dorchester Heights">Dorchester Heights</a>, the British evacuate <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, ending the 11‑month <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Siege of Boston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology330331_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology330331-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">American Patriots</a> conduct a <a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Tybee_Island" title="Raid on Tybee Island">Raid on Tybee Island</a>, primarily seeking to capture runaway slaves who sought refuge with British forces stationed there.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Bautista_de_Anza" title="Juan Bautista de Anza">Juan Bautista de Anza</a> finds the site for the <a href="/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco" title="Presidio of San Francisco">Presidio of San Francisco</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Ballet" title="Bolshoi Ballet">Bolshoi Ballet</a>, a world-renowned <a href="/wiki/Ballet" title="Ballet">ballet group</a>, is founded in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2020)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_12" title="April 12">April 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The Royal Colony of North Carolina produces the <a href="/wiki/Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a>, making it the first British colony to officially authorize its <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> delegates, to vote for independence from the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_27" title="April 27">April 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeongjo_of_Joseon" title="Jeongjo of Joseon">Jeongjo</a> becomes the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Joseon" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Joseon">King of Joseon</a> following the death of his grandfather <a href="/wiki/Yeongjo_of_Joseon" title="Yeongjo of Joseon">Yeongjo</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May–June"><span id="May.E2.80.93June"></span>May–June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: May–June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt" title="Adam Weishaupt">Adam Weishaupt</a> founds the <i><a href="/wiki/Illuminati" title="Illuminati">Illuminati</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Ingolstadt" title="Ingolstadt">Ingolstadt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to <a href="/wiki/King_George_III_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="King George III of Great Britain">King George III of Great Britain</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a>–<a href="/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">26</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars" title="Battle of the Cedars">Battle of the Cedars</a>: British forces skirmish with the American <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> around <a href="/wiki/Les_C%C3%A8dres,_Quebec" title="Les Cèdres, Quebec">Les Cèdres, Quebec</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_6" title="June 6">June 6</a> – A fire destroys major parts of the town of <a href="/wiki/Askersund" title="Askersund">Askersund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> proposes to the <a href="/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a> (meeting in Philadelphia) that <a href="/wiki/Lee_Resolution" title="Lee Resolution">"these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res" title="Battle of Trois-Rivières">Battle of Trois-Rivières</a>: The invading American Continental Army is driven back at <a href="/wiki/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res,_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Trois-Rivières, Quebec">Trois-Rivières, Quebec</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> – Death of King <a href="/wiki/Hsinbyushin" title="Hsinbyushin">Hsinbyushin</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Konbaung_dynasty" title="Konbaung dynasty">Konbaung dynasty</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> appoints a <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a> to draft a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The <i><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights" title="Virginia Declaration of Rights">Virginia Declaration of Rights</a></i> (by <a href="/wiki/George_Mason" title="George Mason">George Mason</a>) is adopted by the Virginia Convention of Delegates.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – Delaware Separation Day: The <a href="/wiki/Delaware_General_Assembly" title="Delaware General Assembly">Delaware General Assembly</a> votes to suspend government under the British Crown.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a> – Lt. <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Moraga" title="José Joaquín Moraga">José Joaquín Moraga</a> leads a band of colonists from <a href="/wiki/Monterey,_California" title="Monterey, California">Monterey</a> Presidio, landing on <a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a> and, with Father <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pal%C3%B3u" title="Francisco Palóu">Francisco Palóu</a>, constructing the <a href="/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs" title="Mission San Francisco de Asís">Mission San Francisco de Asís</a> ("Mission Dolores") of the new Presidio of <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, the oldest surviving building in the modern-day city.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_28" title="June 28">June 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sullivan%27s_Island" title="Battle of Sullivan's Island">Battle of Sullivan's Island</a>: <a href="/wiki/Province_of_South_Carolina" title="Province of South Carolina">South Carolina</a> militia repel a British attack on <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Turtle_Gut_Inlet" title="Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet">Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet</a>: The American <a href="/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a> successfully challenges the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> blockade off <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July–August"><span id="July.E2.80.93August"></span>July–August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: July–August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July_2" title="July 2">July 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The final U.S. Declaration of Independence (with minor revisions) is written. The Continental Congress passes the <a href="/wiki/Lee_Resolution" title="Lee Resolution">Lee Resolution</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a>: The Continental Congress ratifies the declaration by the United States of its independence from the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pocket_On_This_Day_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pocket_On_This_Day-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_8" title="July 8">July 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Bell" title="Liberty Bell">Liberty Bell</a> rings in Philadelphia, for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_9" title="July 9">July 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – An angry mob in New York City topples the equestrian statue of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of Great Britain">George III of Great Britain</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green_(New_York_City)" title="Bowling Green (New York City)">Bowling Green</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_12" title="July 12">July 12</a> – Captain <a href="/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a> sets off from <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>, England, in <a href="/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(1771)" title="HMS Resolution (1771)">HMS <i>Resolution</i></a> on his <a href="/wiki/Third_voyage_of_James_Cook" title="Third voyage of James Cook">third voyage</a>, to the Pacific Ocean and <a href="/wiki/Arctic" title="Arctic">Arctic</a>, which will be fatal.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_21" title="July 21">July 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Serenade_No._7_(Mozart)" title="Serenade No. 7 (Mozart)">Serenade No. 7</a></i> (the "Haffner") is first performed in <a href="/wiki/Salzburg" title="Salzburg">Salzburg</a>, Austria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_29" title="July 29">July 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnguez%E2%80%93Escalante_expedition" title="Domínguez–Escalante expedition">Domínguez–Escalante expedition</a>: Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe, on an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest. They are the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.<sup id="cite_ref-Saunt_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saunt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata">Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata</a> is established in southern South America.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2" title="August 2">August 2</a> – Most of the American colonies ratify the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The first <a href="/wiki/Hessian_(soldier)" title="Hessian (soldier)">Hessian</a> troops land on <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a>, to join British forces.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">August 25</a> – Scottish philosopher and historian <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a> dies.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_27" title="August 27">August 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Battle of Long Island</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">Washington</a>'s troops are defeated in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> by the British, under <a href="/wiki/William_Howe,_5th_Viscount_Howe" title="William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe">William Howe</a>.</li> <li>August – The guild organisation <i><a href="/wiki/Marchandes_de_modes" class="mw-redirect" title="Marchandes de modes">Marchandes de modes</a></i> is founded in Paris.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September–October"><span id="September.E2.80.93October"></span>September–October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: September–October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars" title="Cherokee–American wars">Cherokee–American wars</a>: The invasion of the Cherokee Nation by 6,000 patriot troops from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina begins. The troops destroy 36 Cherokee towns.<sup id="cite_ref-Saunt_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saunt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – A hurricane hits <a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a>, killing more than 6,000 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_7" title="September 7">September 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – World's first <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> attack: The American submersible craft <i><a href="/wiki/Turtle_(submersible)" title="Turtle (submersible)">Turtle</a></i> attempts to attach a <a href="/wiki/Time_bomb_(explosive)" class="mw-redirect" title="Time bomb (explosive)">time bomb</a> to the hull of British Admiral <a href="/wiki/Richard_Howe" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Howe">Richard Howe</a>'s flagship <a href="/wiki/HMS_Eagle_(1774)" title="HMS Eagle (1774)">HMS <i>Eagle</i></a>, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_Harbor" title="New York Harbor">New York Harbor</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_9" title="September 9">September 9</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> officially names its union of states the <i><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></i> (previously the <a href="/wiki/United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – An abortive <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island_Peace_Conference" title="Staten Island Peace Conference">peace conference</a> takes place between the British and Americans, on <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Landing_at_Kip%27s_Bay" title="Landing at Kip's Bay">Landing at Kip's Bay</a>: British troops land on <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kips_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Kips Bay">Kips Bay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology330331_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology330331-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif/250px-Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif/330px-Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif/500px-Nathan_Hale_hanged_by_British_1776.gif 2x" data-file-width="547" data-file-height="520" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a>: British hang spy <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Hale" title="Nathan Hale">Nathan Hale</a> in New York City.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_16" title="September 16">September 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Harlem_Heights" title="Battle of Harlem Heights">Battle of Harlem Heights</a>: The Continental Army under Washington is victorious against the British on Manhattan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_17" title="September 17">September 17</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco" title="Presidio of San Francisco">Presidio of San Francisco</a> is founded in New Spain.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Great_Fire_of_New_York_(1776)" title="Great Fire of New York (1776)">Great Fire of New York of 1776</a> starts during the night, ending the following morning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Hale" title="Nathan Hale">Nathan Hale</a> is executed by the British in New York City, for espionage.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_24" title="September 24">September 24</a> <ul><li>The first running of the <a href="/wiki/St_Leger_Stakes" title="St Leger Stakes">St Leger Stakes</a> horse race<sup id="cite_ref-Pocket_On_This_Day_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pocket_On_This_Day-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (not yet named) in England, first of the <a href="/wiki/British_Classic_Races" title="British Classic Races">British Classic Races</a>, devised by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_St_Leger_(British_Army_officer)" title="Anthony St Leger (British Army officer)">Anthony St Leger (British Army officer)</a>, takes place on Cantley Common at <a href="/wiki/Doncaster" title="Doncaster">Doncaster</a>. The winner is a filly (later named <a href="/wiki/Allabaculia" title="Allabaculia">Allabaculia</a>) owned by the organiser, the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">2nd Marquess of Rockingham</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Theatre,_Saint_Petersburg" title="Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg">Bolshoi Theatre</a> company hosts its first annual <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> season, with the opening of the <i>Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre</i> in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Crown_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown Prince">Crown Prince</a> <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul of Russia">Paul of Russia</a> marries <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Dorothea_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg">Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a> – Father <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pal%C3%B3u" title="Francisco Palóu">Francisco Palóu</a> founds the <a href="/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs" title="Mission San Francisco de Asís">Mission San Francisco de Asís</a>, in what is now <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">October 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island" title="Battle of Valcour Island">Battle of Valcour Island</a>: On <a href="/wiki/Lake_Champlain" title="Lake Champlain">Lake Champlain</a> near <a href="/wiki/Valcour_Island" title="Valcour Island">Valcour Island</a>, a British fleet led by Sir <a href="/wiki/Guy_Carleton,_1st_Baron_Dorchester" title="Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester">Guy Carleton</a> defeats 15 American gunboats, commanded by Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a>. Although nearly all of Arnold's ships are destroyed, the two-day-long battle will give Patriot forces enough time to prepare the defenses of New York City.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pell%27s_Point" title="Battle of Pell's Point">Battle of Pell's Point</a>: Troops of the American <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> resist a British and <a href="/wiki/Hessian_(soldier)" title="Hessian (soldier)">Hessian</a> force in <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_White_Plains" title="Battle of White Plains">Battle of White Plains</a>: British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology330331_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology330331-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_31" title="October 31">October 31</a> – In his first speech before British Parliament since the Declaration of Independence that summer, King <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a> acknowledges that all is not going well for Britain, in the war with the United States.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November–December"><span id="November.E2.80.93December"></span>November–December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: November–December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington" title="Battle of Fort Washington">Battle of Fort Washington</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hessian_(soldier)" title="Hessian (soldier)">Hessian forces</a> under Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Knyphausen" title="Wilhelm von Knyphausen">Wilhelm von Knyphausen</a> capture <a href="/wiki/Fort_Washington_(Manhattan)" title="Fort Washington (Manhattan)">Fort Washington (Manhattan)</a> from the American <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>.</li> <li>The captain of the American navy ship <i><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Doria_(1775_brig)" title="Andrew Doria (1775 brig)">Andrew Doria</a></i> fires a salute to the Dutch flag on <a href="/wiki/Fort_Oranje_(Sint_Eustatius)" title="Fort Oranje (Sint Eustatius)">Fort Oranje</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Johannes_de_Graaff" title="Johannes de Graaff">Johannes de Graaff</a> answers with 11 gun shots.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_20" title="November 20">November 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Lee" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Fort Lee">Battle of Fort Lee</a>: The invasion of <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, by British and Hessian forces, leads to the subsequent general retreat of the American Continental Army.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa" title="Phi Beta Kappa">Phi Beta Kappa</a> society is founded at the <a href="/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary" title="College of William & Mary">College of William & Mary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_6" title="December 6">December 6</a> – The General Assembly of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> votes to create <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_County,_Virginia" title="Kentucky County, Virginia">Kentucky County</a> as the portion of the colony's <a href="/wiki/Fincastle_County,_Virginia" title="Fincastle County, Virginia">Fincastle County</a> that is located west of the <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains" title="Cumberland Mountains">Cumberland Mountains</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1792, the county will become the 15th state of the United States as the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth of Kentucky">Commonwealth of Kentucky</a>. The rest of Fincastle County, between the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains" title="Blue Ridge Mountains">Blue Ridge Mountains</a> and the Appalachians is divided into the first county to be named after <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> (<a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Virginia" title="Washington County, Virginia">Washington County, Virginia</a>) in the south along the border with the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> colony, and <a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Virginia" title="Montgomery County, Virginia">Montgomery County</a> in the north. The divisions take effect on December 31.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_7" title="December 7">December 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette" title="Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette">Marquis de Lafayette</a> attempts to enter the American military as a major general.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – The second Continental Congress ends after a session that began on May 10, 1775, and continued for 582 days.<sup id="cite_ref-Harper_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harper-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, living with Washington's troops, publishes the first in the series of pamphlets on <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Crisis" title="The American Crisis">The American Crisis</a></i> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pennsylvania_Journal" title="The Pennsylvania Journal">The Pennsylvania Journal</a></i>, opening with the stirring phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls."</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – The Royal Colony of North Carolina reorganizes into the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">State of North Carolina</a> after adopting its own constitution. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Caswell" title="Richard Caswell">Richard Caswell</a> becomes the first governor of the newly formed state.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg/250px-The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg/330px-The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg/500px-The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton_December_26_1776.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1992" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Capture_of_the_Hessians_at_Trenton,_December_26,_1776" title="The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776">Capture of the Hessians at Trenton</a></i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> – At 6 p.m. Gen. George Washington and his troops, numbering 2,400, march to <a href="/wiki/McConkey%27s_Ferry" class="mw-redirect" title="McConkey's Ferry">McConkey's Ferry</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River" title="George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River">cross the Delaware River</a>, and land on the New Jersey bank by 3 a.m. the following morning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trenton" title="Battle of Trenton">Battle of Trenton</a>: Washington's troops surprise the 1,500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. <a href="/wiki/Johann_Rall" title="Johann Rall">Johann Rall</a> at 8 a.m. outside Trenton and score a victory,<sup id="cite_ref-Cassell's_Chronology330331_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cassell's_Chronology330331-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> taking 948 prisoners while suffering only five wounded.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Date_unknown">Date unknown</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Date unknown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlan_II" title="Adlan II">Adlan II</a> becomes ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sennar" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Sennar">Kingdom of Sennar</a>.</li> <li>The first commercial examples of the <a href="/wiki/Watt_steam_engine" title="Watt steam engine">Watt steam engine</a> are sold.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_M._Broom" title="James M. Broom">James M. Broom</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2" title="January 2">January 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Chaplin" title="Jeremiah Chaplin">Jeremiah Chaplin</a>, American Reformed Baptist theologian (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Morris_(Ohio_politician)" title="Thomas Morris (Ohio politician)">Thomas Morris</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_4" title="January 4">January 4</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernardino_Drovetti" title="Bernardino Drovetti">Bernardino Drovetti</a>, Italian diplomat (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Prosper_Jollois" title="Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois">Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois</a>, French Egyptologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Schill" title="Ferdinand von Schill">Ferdinand von Schill</a>, German noble (d. <a href="/wiki/1809" title="1809">1809</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auguste_Jean_Ameil" title="Auguste Jean Ameil">Auguste Jean Ameil</a>, French soldier (d. <a href="/wiki/1822" title="1822">1822</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Langlois_Lefroy" title="Thomas Langlois Lefroy">Thomas Langlois Lefroy</a>, Irish politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1869" title="1869">1869</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_9" title="January 9">January 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Rhesa" title="Ludwig Rhesa">Ludwig Rhesa</a>, Prussian scholar (d. <a href="/wiki/1840" title="1840">1840</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Birkbeck" title="George Birkbeck">George Birkbeck</a>, English doctor, academic and philanthropist (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Prince_William_Frederick,_Duke_of_Gloucester_and_Edinburgh" title="Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh">Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh</a>, Roman-born British prince (d. <a href="/wiki/1834" title="1834">1834</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Brown_(college_president)" title="Matthew Brown (college president)">Matthew Brown</a>, American college president (d. <a href="/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Soares_de_Albergaria_de_Sousa" title="João Soares de Albergaria de Sousa">João Soares de Albergaria de Sousa</a>, Portuguese politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1875" title="1875">1875</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Onslow_(priest)" title="Richard Onslow (priest)">Richard Onslow</a>, English archdeacon (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_17" title="January 17">January 17</a> <i>(bapt.)</i> – <a href="/wiki/Jane_Porter" title="Jane Porter">Jane Porter</a>, English novelist (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_21" title="January 21">January 21</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poul_Christian_Holst" title="Poul Christian Holst">Poul Christian Holst</a>, Norwegian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisha_Haley" title="Elisha Haley">Elisha Haley</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1860" title="1860">1860</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_23" title="January 23">January 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Howard_Douglas" title="Howard Douglas">Howard Douglas</a>, British Army general (d. <a href="/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_24" title="January 24">January 24</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Guillaume,_baron_Hyde_de_Neuville" title="Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville">Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville</a>, French aristocrat (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)<figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:E._T._A._Hoffmann,_autorretrato.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/E._T._A._Hoffmann%2C_autorretrato.jpg/110px-E._T._A._Hoffmann%2C_autorretrato.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/E._T._A._Hoffmann%2C_autorretrato.jpg/165px-E._T._A._Hoffmann%2C_autorretrato.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/E._T._A._Hoffmann%2C_autorretrato.jpg/220px-E._T._A._Hoffmann%2C_autorretrato.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2188" data-file-height="2544" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann" title="E. T. A. Hoffmann">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a></figcaption></figure></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann" title="E. T. A. Hoffmann">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a>, German writer, composer and painter (d. <a href="/wiki/1822" title="1822">1822</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_A._Jay" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter A. Jay">Peter A. Jay</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1843" title="1843">1843</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_25" title="January 25">January 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joseph_G%C3%B6rres" title="Joseph Görres">Joseph Görres</a>, German writer and journalist (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_29" title="January 29">January 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Bowie_(agrarian)" title="William Bowie (agrarian)">William Bowie</a>, American agrarian (d. <a href="/wiki/1826" title="1826">1826</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Reinhold_Treviranus" title="Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus">Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus</a>, German biologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Gerard_Kemmerling" title="Jan Gerard Kemmerling">Jan Gerard Kemmerling</a>, Dutch mayor (d. <a href="/wiki/1818" title="1818">1818</a>)<figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kapodistrias2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Kapodistrias2.jpg/120px-Kapodistrias2.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Kapodistrias2.jpg/250px-Kapodistrias2.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="516" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ioannis_Kapodistrias" title="Ioannis Kapodistrias">Ioannis Kapodistrias</a></figcaption></figure></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_11" title="February 11">February 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ioannis_Kapodistrias" title="Ioannis Kapodistrias">Ioannis Kapodistrias</a>, Governor of Greece (d. <a href="/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Mant" title="Richard Mant">Richard Mant</a>, Irish bishop (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Young_Pickersgill" title="Mary Young Pickersgill">Mary Young Pickersgill</a>, American maker of the Star Spangled Banner flag (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_14" title="February 14">February 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Christian_Gottfried_Daniel_Nees_von_Esenbeck" title="Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck">Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck</a>, prolific German botanist (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_15" title="February 15">February 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Boyer" title="Jean-Pierre Boyer">Jean-Pierre Boyer</a>, President of Haiti (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_16" title="February 16">February 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Raimbach" title="Abraham Raimbach">Abraham Raimbach</a>, British engraver (d. <a href="/wiki/1843" title="1843">1843</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">February 17</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ross_Cuthbert_(politician)" title="Ross Cuthbert (politician)">Ross Cuthbert</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_zu_M%C3%BCnster" title="Georg zu Münster">Georg zu Münster</a>, German paleontologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Karl_August_Ferdinand_von_Borcke" title="Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke">Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke</a>, German general (d. <a href="/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">February 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mariano_Ricafort_Palac%C3%ADn_y_Abarca" title="Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca">Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca</a>, Spanish colonial governor of Cuba (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Barss" title="Joseph Barss">Joseph Barss</a>, Canadian privateer, sea captain (d. <a href="/wiki/1824" title="1824">1824</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_23" title="February 23">February 23</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Walter_(editor,_born_1776)" title="John Walter (editor, born 1776)">John Walter</a>, English newspaper editor (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heneage_Horsley" title="Heneage Horsley">Heneage Horsley</a>, Scottish priest (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_25" title="February 25">February 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_William_Tighe" title="George William Tighe">George William Tighe</a>, English expatriate (d. <a href="/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_26" title="February 26">February 26</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Innis_Green" title="Innis Green">Innis Green</a>, American congressman for Pennsylvania (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Paterson_(missionary)" title="John Paterson (missionary)">John Paterson</a>, Scottish missionary to Northern Europe (d. <a href="/wiki/1855" title="1855">1855</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Quirouet" title="François Quirouet">François Quirouet</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Collins_(governor)" title="John Collins (governor)">John Collins</a>, American manufacturer, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1822" title="1822">1822</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Moore" title="Elias Moore">Elias Moore</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_Parker_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="James Parker (New Jersey politician)">James Parker</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1868" title="1868">1868</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Emmanuel_Guignard,_vicomte_de_Saint-Priest" title="Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest">Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest</a>, Russian army commander (d. <a href="/wiki/1814" title="1814">1814</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Troost" title="Gerard Troost">Gerard Troost</a>, American mineralogist (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Lambruschini" title="Luigi Lambruschini">Luigi Lambruschini</a>, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Ruggles_(Nova_Scotia_politician)" title="Timothy Ruggles (Nova Scotia politician)">Timothy Ruggles</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_8" title="March 8">March 8</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Rogerson_Williams" title="David Rogerson Williams">David Rogerson Williams</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Tweedy" title="Samuel Tweedy">Samuel Tweedy</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1868" title="1868">1868</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Evans_(British_Army_officer)" title="Thomas Evans (British Army officer)">Thomas Evans</a>, British Army general (d. <a href="/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archduke_Joseph,_Palatine_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary">Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary</a>, Archduke of Austria (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grassi,_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Grassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg/110px-Grassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Grassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg/165px-Grassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Grassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg/220px-Grassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1167" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Louise_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a></figcaption></figure></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louise_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a>, Queen of Prussia (d. <a href="/wiki/1810" title="1810">1810</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Ranvoyz%C3%A9" title="Étienne Ranvoyzé">Étienne Ranvoyzé</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1826" title="1826">1826</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lady_Hester_Stanhope" title="Lady Hester Stanhope">Lady Hester Stanhope</a>, English archaeologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Picquet_du_Boisguy" title="Aimé Picquet du Boisguy">Aimé Picquet du Boisguy</a>, French chouan general during the French Revolution (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joel_Abbot_(politician)" title="Joel Abbot (politician)">Joel Abbot</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1826" title="1826">1826</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Philemon_Beecher" title="Philemon Beecher">Philemon Beecher</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Bates_(educator)" title="Joshua Bates (educator)">Joshua Bates</a>, American educator (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville,_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham_and_Chandos" title="Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos">Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos</a>, English politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Frederick_Frelinghuysen" title="John Frederick Frelinghuysen">John Frederick Frelinghuysen</a>, United States general (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Eden_Duncombe_Shafto" title="Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto">Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto</a>, English politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicente_Salias" title="Vicente Salias">Vicente Salias</a>, Venezuelan doctor (d. <a href="/wiki/1814" title="1814">1814</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Zusho_Hirosato" title="Zusho Hirosato">Zusho Hirosato</a>, Japanese samurai (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles-Fran%C3%A7ois_Brisseau_de_Mirbel" title="Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel">Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel</a>, French botanist, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Tropinin" title="Vasily Tropinin">Vasily Tropinin</a>, Russian artist (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joseph_K%C3%BCffner" title="Joseph Küffner">Joseph Küffner</a>, German musician, composer (d. <a href="/wiki/1856" title="1856">1856</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_1" title="April 1">April 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Fran%C3%A7ois_Bellot" title="Pierre François Bellot">Pierre François Bellot</a>, Swiss jurist (d. <a href="/wiki/1836" title="1836">1836</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Germain" title="Sophie Germain">Sophie Germain</a>, French mathematician (d. <a href="/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">April 3</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Blanchet_(physician)" title="François Blanchet (physician)">François Blanchet</a>, Canadian physician, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Anne_Clarke" title="Mary Anne Clarke">Mary Anne Clarke</a>, English mistress of Prince Frederick (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_6" title="April 6">April 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Bledsoe" title="Jesse Bledsoe">Jesse Bledsoe</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1836" title="1836">1836</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_11" title="April 11">April 11</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Macvey_Napier" title="Macvey Napier">Macvey Napier</a>, Scottish legal scholar, one of the editors of the <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i> (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Inglott" title="Jerome Inglott">Jerome Inglott</a>, Maltese philosopher (d. <a href="/wiki/1835" title="1835">1835</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_12" title="April 12">April 12</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hezekiah_Cogswell" title="Henry Hezekiah Cogswell">Henry Hezekiah Cogswell</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hobhouse_(archivist)" title="Henry Hobhouse (archivist)">Henry Hobhouse</a>, English archivist (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">April 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Sch%C3%BCtz" title="Wilhelm von Schütz">Wilhelm von Schütz</a>, German author, playwright (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Anstruther-Thomson" title="John Anstruther-Thomson">John Anstruther-Thomson</a>, Scottish nobleman, Colonel of the Royal Fifeshire Yeomanry Cavalry (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_17" title="April 17">April 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Roger" title="Jean-François Roger">Jean-François Roger</a>, French poet, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustin-Marie_d%27Aboville" title="Augustin-Marie d'Aboville">Augustin-Marie d'Aboville</a>, French artillerist during the Revolution (d. <a href="/wiki/1843" title="1843">1843</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Weston_Young" title="William Weston Young">William Weston Young</a>, English Quaker businessman (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_25" title="April 25">April 25</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Miller_(general)" title="James Miller (general)">James Miller</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Solly" title="Edward Solly">Edward Solly</a>, English merchant, art collector (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princess_Mary,_Duchess_of_Gloucester_and_Edinburgh" title="Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh">Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh</a>, member of the British Royal Family (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_27" title="April 27">April 27</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hyacinthe_Jadin" title="Hyacinthe Jadin">Hyacinthe Jadin</a>, French composer (d. <a href="/wiki/1800" title="1800">1800</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cunningham_(Nova_Scotia_politician)" title="John Cunningham (Nova Scotia politician)">John Cunningham</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bennet,_5th_Earl_of_Tankerville" title="Charles Bennet, 5th Earl of Tankerville">Charles Bennet, 5th Earl of Tankerville</a>, English politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Vieira_de_Albuquerque_Touvar" title="Manuel Vieira de Albuquerque Touvar">Manuel Vieira de Albuquerque Touvar</a>, Portuguese nobleman (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Herbart" title="Johann Friedrich Herbart">Johann Friedrich Herbart</a>, German philosopher, psychologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Valentine_Efner" title="Valentine Efner">Valentine Efner</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Rumbold_Lushington" title="Stephen Rumbold Lushington">Stephen Rumbold Lushington</a>, English politician, administrator in Madras (d. <a href="/wiki/1868" title="1868">1868</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Mikhailovich_Volkonsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky">Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky</a>, Russian field marshal (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rensselaer_Westerlo" title="Rensselaer Westerlo">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_8" title="May 8">May 8</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Leveson-Gower" title="Edward Leveson-Gower">Edward Leveson-Gower</a>, British Royal Navy admiral (d. <a href="/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Bagrat_of_Georgia" title="Prince Bagrat of Georgia">Prince Bagrat of Georgia</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_9" title="May 9">May 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Maguire_(priest)" title="Thomas Maguire (priest)">Thomas Maguire</a>, Canadian Catholic priest (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Thomas_Smart" title="George Thomas Smart">George Thomas Smart</a>, English musician (d. <a href="/wiki/1867" title="1867">1867</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_La_Mar" class="mw-redirect" title="José de La Mar">José de La Mar</a>, military leader, President of Peru (d. <a href="/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jett_Thomas" title="Jett Thomas">Jett Thomas</a>, American militia general (d. <a href="/wiki/1817" title="1817">1817</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_17" title="May 17">May 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Amos_Eaton" title="Amos Eaton">Amos Eaton</a>, American botanist (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_18" title="May 18">May 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Pennington" title="Dennis Pennington">Dennis Pennington</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Fraser_(explorer)" title="Simon Fraser (explorer)">Simon Fraser</a>, Canadian explorer (d. <a href="/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Rosales" title="Víctor Rosales">Víctor Rosales</a>, Mexican rebel (d. <a href="/wiki/1817" title="1817">1817</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_29" title="May 29">May 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Erasmus_M%C3%BCller" title="Peter Erasmus Müller">Peter Erasmus Müller</a>, Danish historian, linguist and theologian (d. <a href="/wiki/1834" title="1834">1834</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_31" title="May 31">May 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_de_la_Garza" title="José Antonio de la Garza">José Antonio de la Garza</a>, American mayor (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Schetky" title="George Schetky">George Schetky</a>, American conductor (d. <a href="/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Zamboni" title="Giuseppe Zamboni">Giuseppe Zamboni</a>, Italian Catholic priest, physicist (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_4" title="June 4">June 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Isaac_B._Van_Houten" title="Isaac B. Van Houten">Isaac B. Van Houten</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_6" title="June 6">June 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Reed_(politician)" title="William Reed (politician)">William Reed</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rickman" title="Thomas Rickman">Thomas Rickman</a>, English architect, architectural antiquary (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner,_1796.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner%2C_1796.JPG/110px-John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner%2C_1796.JPG" decoding="async" width="110" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner%2C_1796.JPG/165px-John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner%2C_1796.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner%2C_1796.JPG/220px-John_Constable_by_Daniel_Gardner%2C_1796.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2056" data-file-height="3088" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_Constable" title="John Constable">John Constable</a></figcaption></figure></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Constable" title="John Constable">John Constable</a>, English landscape painter (d. <a href="/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Burdach" title="Karl Friedrich Burdach">Karl Friedrich Burdach</a>, German physiologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_de_Goyeneche,_1st_Count_of_Guaqui" title="José Manuel de Goyeneche, 1st Count of Guaqui">José Manuel de Goyeneche, 1st Count of Guaqui</a>, Spanish soldier, diplomat (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_R%C3%A9voil" title="Pierre Révoil">Pierre Révoil</a>, French painter (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Francis_Johnson_(congressman)" title="Francis Johnson (congressman)">Francis Johnson</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">June 21</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Landgravine_Josepha_of_F%C3%BCrstenberg-Weitra" title="Landgravine Josepha of Fürstenberg-Weitra">Landgravine Josepha of Fürstenberg-Weitra</a>, Princess of Liechtenstein (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Horsfall" title="Charles Horsfall">Charles Horsfall</a>, English merchant, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wadd" title="William Wadd">William Wadd</a>, English surgeon, medical author (d. <a href="/wiki/1829" title="1829">1829</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Longfellow" title="Stephen Longfellow">Stephen Longfellow</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_28" title="June 28">June 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mathews" title="Charles Mathews">Charles Mathews</a>, English actor (d. <a href="/wiki/1835" title="1835">1835</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Okill_Stuart_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Okill Stuart (priest)">George Okill Stuart</a>, Canadian clergyman (d. <a href="/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Thatcher" title="Samuel Thatcher">Samuel Thatcher</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1872" title="1872">1872</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Gay" title="Sophie Gay">Sophie Gay</a>, French author (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_3" title="July 3">July 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Parnell,_1st_Baron_Congleton" title="Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton">Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton</a>, Anglo-Irish politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A4r_Aron_Borg" title="Pär Aron Borg">Pär Aron Borg</a>, Swedish sign language creator (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethan_Allen_Brown" title="Ethan Allen Brown">Ethan Allen Brown</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Dobbins" title="Daniel Dobbins">Daniel Dobbins</a>, captain in the United States Revenue Cutter Service (d. <a href="/wiki/1856" title="1856">1856</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Smith_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="Bernard Smith (New Jersey politician)">Bernard Smith</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1835" title="1835">1835</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Powell" title="Samuel Powell">Samuel Powell</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_11" title="July 11">July 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Bradbery" title="William Bradbery">William Bradbery</a>, English entrepreneur (d. <a href="/wiki/1860" title="1860">1860</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_12" title="July 12">July 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Christian_(Deemster)" title="John Christian (Deemster)">John Christian</a>, Manx judge (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_13" title="July 13">July 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Caroline_of_Baden" title="Caroline of Baden">Caroline of Baden</a>, Queen of Bavaria (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_14" title="July 14">July 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Yrieix_Daumesnil" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil">Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil</a>, French soldier (d. <a href="/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_16" title="July 16">July 16</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Heinrich_Bojanus" title="Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus">Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus</a>, German physician, naturalist (d. <a href="/wiki/1827" title="1827">1827</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Georg_von_Soldner" title="Johann Georg von Soldner">Johann Georg von Soldner</a>, German physicist (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_17" title="July 17">July 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Neilson_(Canadian_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Neilson (Canadian politician)">John Neilson</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_18" title="July 18">July 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Struthers_(poet)" title="John Struthers (poet)">John Struthers</a>, Scottish poet (d. <a href="/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_20" title="July 20">July 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ignaz_Schuppanzigh" title="Ignaz Schuppanzigh">Ignaz Schuppanzigh</a>, Austrian musician (d. <a href="/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Etheldred_Benett" title="Etheldred Benett">Etheldred Benett</a>, English geologist (d. <a href="/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hermann_Otto,_Prince_of_Hohenzollern-Hechingen" title="Friedrich Hermann Otto, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen">Friedrich Hermann Otto, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1838" title="1838">1838</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_26" title="July 26">July 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Fouquier" title="Pierre Fouquier">Pierre Fouquier</a>, French physician, professor of medicine (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_29" title="July 29">July 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_McSherry_(Pennsylvania_politician)" title="James McSherry (Pennsylvania politician)">James McSherry</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_30" title="July 30">July 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sir_Edward_Kerrison,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet">Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet</a>, British general (d. <a href="/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Acheson,_2nd_Earl_of_Gosford" title="Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford">Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford</a>, Governor General of British North America (1835-1837) (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Corbineau" title="Jean Corbineau">Jean Corbineau</a>, French cavalry general (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2" title="August 2">August 2</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Assheton_Smith_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Assheton Smith II">Thomas Assheton Smith II</a>, English cricketer (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Stromeyer" title="Friedrich Stromeyer">Friedrich Stromeyer</a>, German chemist (d. <a href="/wiki/1835" title="1835">1835</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Ballanche" title="Pierre-Simon Ballanche">Pierre-Simon Ballanche</a>, French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_5" title="August 5">August 5</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sophie_d%27Artois" title="Sophie d'Artois">Sophie d'Artois</a>, French princess (d. <a href="/wiki/1783" title="1783">1783</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Willson" title="John Willson">John Willson</a>, Canadian judge (d. <a href="/wiki/1860" title="1860">1860</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_6" title="August 6">August 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Crooks_(Canadian_politician)" title="William Crooks (Canadian politician)">William Crooks</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1836" title="1836">1836</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_9" title="August 9">August 9</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Munch" title="Jacob Munch">Jacob Munch</a>, Norwegian painter, military officer (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg/110px-Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg/165px-Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg/220px-Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="764" data-file-height="925" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Amedeo_Avogadro" title="Amedeo Avogadro">Amedeo Avogadro</a></figcaption></figure></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amedeo_Avogadro" title="Amedeo Avogadro">Amedeo Avogadro</a>, Italian chemist (d. <a href="/wiki/1856" title="1856">1856</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Millidge,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Millidge, Jr.">Thomas Millidge, Jr.</a>, New Brunswick businessman, political figure (d. <a href="/wiki/1838" title="1838">1838</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Erskine,_2nd_Baron_Erskine" title="David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine">David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine</a>, British politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1855" title="1855">1855</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_13" title="August 13">August 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Shepherd" title="Abraham Shepherd">Abraham Shepherd</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_14" title="August 14">August 14</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Christian_of_Hesse" title="Prince Christian of Hesse">Prince Christian of Hesse</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1814" title="1814">1814</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Friedrich_Tieck" title="Christian Friedrich Tieck">Christian Friedrich Tieck</a>, German sculptor (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ignaz_von_Seyfried" title="Ignaz von Seyfried">Ignaz von Seyfried</a>, Austrian musician (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gottlieb_Schick" title="Gottlieb Schick">Gottlieb Schick</a>, German artist (d. <a href="/wiki/1812" title="1812">1812</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amalia_von_Helvig" title="Amalia von Helvig">Amalia von Helvig</a>, German and Swedish artist (d. <a href="/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipp_Jakob_Riotte" title="Philipp Jakob Riotte">Philipp Jakob Riotte</a>, German composer (d. <a href="/wiki/1856" title="1856">1856</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monaldo_Leopardi" title="Monaldo Leopardi">Monaldo Leopardi</a>, Italian philosopher (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Roch_Coignet" title="Jean-Roch Coignet">Jean-Roch Coignet</a>, French soldier (d. <a href="/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_18" title="August 18">August 18</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Arg%C3%BCelles" title="Agustín Argüelles">Agustín Argüelles</a>, Spanish liberal politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_16th_Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk">Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk</a>, England (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Newman,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet">Sir Robert Newman, 1st Baronet</a>, English politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_21" title="August 21">August 21</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Healy" title="Joseph Healy">Joseph Healy</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Parke_Custis_Law" title="Elizabeth Parke Custis Law">Elizabeth Parke Custis Law</a>, American matriarch (d. <a href="/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_22" title="August 22">August 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Amati" title="Carlo Amati">Carlo Amati</a>, Italian architect (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_23" title="August 23">August 23</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jens_Peter_Debes" title="Jens Peter Debes">Jens Peter Debes</a>, Norwegian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Maria_Hoene-Wro%C5%84ski" title="Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński">Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński</a>, Polish philosopher (d. <a href="/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">August 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bladen_Capel" title="Thomas Bladen Capel">Thomas Bladen Capel</a>, British admiral (d. <a href="/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_26" title="August 26">August 26</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ferdynand_Stokowski" title="Ferdynand Stokowski">Ferdynand Stokowski</a>, Polish general (d. <a href="/wiki/1827" title="1827">1827</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Livingston" title="Henry A. Livingston">Henry A. Livingston</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_27" title="August 27">August 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Barthold_Georg_Niebuhr" title="Barthold Georg Niebuhr">Barthold Georg Niebuhr</a>, Danish-German statesman, historian (d. <a href="/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_29" title="August 29">August 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Treitschke" title="Georg Friedrich Treitschke">Georg Friedrich Treitschke</a>, German librettist (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Gervais,_baron_Subervie" title="Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie">Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie</a>, French general, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1856" title="1856">1856</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezekiel_Bacon" title="Ezekiel Bacon">Ezekiel Bacon</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1870" title="1870">1870</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_3" title="September 3">September 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Mayrand" title="Étienne Mayrand">Étienne Mayrand</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1872" title="1872">1872</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_4" title="September 4">September 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Whitney" title="Stephen Whitney">Stephen Whitney</a>, American merchant (d. <a href="/wiki/1860" title="1860">1860</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_5" title="September 5">September 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Simon_Frazer" title="Augustus Simon Frazer">Augustus Simon Frazer</a>, French-born British Army officer (d. <a href="/wiki/1835" title="1835">1835</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_8" title="September 8">September 8</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amelia_of_Nassau-Weilburg" title="Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg">Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg</a>, German noblewoman (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Meldahl" title="Heinrich Meldahl">Heinrich Meldahl</a>, Norwegian builder (d. <a href="/wiki/1840" title="1840">1840</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_9" title="September 9">September 9</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parmenio_Adams" title="Parmenio Adams">Parmenio Adams</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Pease" title="Calvin Pease">Calvin Pease</a>, Ohio jurist, legislator (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Broke" title="Philip Broke">Philip Broke</a>, British Royal Navy admiral (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Arbuthnot" title="Thomas Arbuthnot">Thomas Arbuthnot</a>, British Army general (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Baylies" title="William Baylies">William Baylies</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Willey" title="Calvin Willey">Calvin Willey</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_17" title="September 17">September 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Langdon_Cheves" title="Langdon Cheves">Langdon Cheves</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_18" title="September 18">September 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gleadowe-Newcomen,_2nd_Viscount_Newcomen" title="Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen">Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen</a>, English politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1825" title="1825">1825</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_21" title="September 21">September 21</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Gustav_Bonuvier" title="Karl Gustav Bonuvier">Karl Gustav Bonuvier</a>, Swedish actor, theatre director (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Fitchett_(poet)" title="John Fitchett (poet)">John Fitchett</a>, English poet (d. <a href="/wiki/1838" title="1838">1838</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_27" title="September 27">September 27</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shaver" title="Peter Shaver">Peter Shaver</a>, Canadian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1866" title="1866">1866</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Versfelt" title="Maria Versfelt">Maria Versfelt</a>, Dutch writer, actor (d. <a href="/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Warren_Baldwin" title="Augustus Warren Baldwin">Augustus Warren Baldwin</a>, Upper Canada naval officer, political figure (d. <a href="/wiki/1866" title="1866">1866</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walsh_(Vicar_Apostolic_of_the_London_District)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Walsh (Vicar Apostolic of the London District)">Thomas Walsh</a>, Vicar Apostolic of England and Wales (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_4" title="October 4">October 4</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Bell%C3%A9" title="Giovanni Battista Bellé">Giovanni Battista Bellé</a>, Italian Bishop of Mantova (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Tosti" title="Antonio Tosti">Antonio Tosti</a>, Italian cardinal-priest (d. <a href="/wiki/1866" title="1866">1866</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariano_Lagasca" title="Mariano Lagasca">Mariano Lagasca</a>, Spanish botanist (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">October 6</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hirata_Atsutane" title="Hirata Atsutane">Hirata Atsutane</a>, Japanese theologian of the Shintō religion (d. <a href="/wiki/1843" title="1843">1843</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Duff,_4th_Earl_Fife" title="James Duff, 4th Earl Fife">James Duff, 4th Earl Fife</a>, Scottish-born Spanish general (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stuart-Wortley,_1st_Baron_Wharncliffe" title="James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe">James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe</a>, English politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_8" title="October 8">October 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pieter_van_Os" title="Pieter van Os">Pieter van Os</a>, Dutch painter, engraver (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jean-Michel_Mah%C3%A9" title="Jean-Michel Mahé">Jean-Michel Mahé</a>, French Navy officer, captain (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_13" title="October 13">October 13</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Barlow_(mathematician)" title="Peter Barlow (mathematician)">Peter Barlow</a>, English mathematician (d. <a href="/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gibb_(engineer)" title="John Gibb (engineer)">John Gibb</a>, Scottish civil engineering contractor (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">October 14</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rexford" title="Samuel Rexford">Samuel Rexford</a>, New York politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Townsend_Farquhar" title="Robert Townsend Farquhar">Robert Townsend Farquhar</a>, British colonial administrator (d. <a href="/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cowles_Mead" title="Cowles Mead">Cowles Mead</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_20" title="October 20">October 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Rolls_of_The_Hendre" title="John Rolls of The Hendre">John Rolls of The Hendre</a>, British judge (d. <a href="/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_21" title="October 21">October 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Izard" title="George Izard">George Izard</a>, United States general (d. <a href="/wiki/1828" title="1828">1828</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Edward_Draper" title="Edward Draper">Edward Draper</a>, British military officer, civil servant in Mauritius (d. <a href="/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_25" title="October 25">October 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Neill_(naturalist)" title="Patrick Neill (naturalist)">Patrick Neill</a>, Scottish printer, horticulturalist (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Haspinger" title="Joachim Haspinger">Joachim Haspinger</a>, Catholic priest, leader of the Tyrolese revolt against Napoleon (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_30" title="October 30">October 30</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_M._Bibb" title="George M. Bibb">George M. Bibb</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hahn_(politician)" title="John Hahn (politician)">John Hahn</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1823" title="1823">1823</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_31" title="October 31">October 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Francis_Locke_Jr." title="Francis Locke Jr.">Francis Locke Jr.</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1823" title="1823">1823</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_1" title="November 1">November 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abraham_McClellan_(Missouri_politician)" title="Abraham McClellan (Missouri politician)">Abraham McClellan</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_5" title="November 5">November 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Teerlink" title="Abraham Teerlink">Abraham Teerlink</a>, Dutch painter (d. <a href="/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_7" title="November 7">November 7</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bartow_White" title="Bartow White">Bartow White</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Abercromby,_1st_Baron_Dunfermline" title="James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline">James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline</a>, British politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_10" title="November 10">November 10</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Gross_(politician)" title="Samuel Gross (politician)">Samuel Gross</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Seymour_(Knoyle)" title="Henry Seymour (Knoyle)">Henry Seymour (Knoyle)</a>, British politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Washington_Johnston" title="General Washington Johnston">General Washington Johnston</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_11" title="November 11">November 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Philip_E._Thomas" title="Philip E. Thomas">Philip E. Thomas</a>, American banker, railroad executive (d. <a href="/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Henri_Dutrochet" title="Henri Dutrochet">Henri Dutrochet</a>, French physician (d. <a href="/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Manby_(ironmaster)" title="Aaron Manby (ironmaster)">Aaron Manby</a>, English civil engineer, founder of the Horseley Ironworks (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pehr_Henrik_Ling" title="Pehr Henrik Ling">Pehr Henrik Ling</a>, Swedish physical therapist (d. <a href="/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Christoph_Schlosser" title="Friedrich Christoph Schlosser">Friedrich Christoph Schlosser</a>, German historian (d. <a href="/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Trimble" title="Robert Trimble">Robert Trimble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1828" title="1828">1828</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_20" title="November 20">November 20</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blackwood" title="William Blackwood">William Blackwood</a>, Scottish publisher (d. <a href="/wiki/1834" title="1834">1834</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Seyssel_d%27Aix" title="Maximilian Seyssel d'Aix">Maximilian Seyssel d'Aix</a>, German general (d. <a href="/wiki/1855" title="1855">1855</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_24" title="November 24">November 24</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Marcel" title="Jean-Joseph Marcel">Jean-Joseph Marcel</a>, French printer and engineer (d. <a href="/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_John_Tierney" title="Matthew John Tierney">Matthew John Tierney</a>, Irish surgeon (d. <a href="/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_29" title="November 29">November 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Harcourt_Lees" title="Harcourt Lees">Harcourt Lees</a>, Irish clergyman, political pamphleteer (d. <a href="/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philippe_Andr%C3%A9_de_Vilmorin" title="Philippe André de Vilmorin">Philippe André de Vilmorin</a>, French horticulturist (d. <a href="/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Frere" title="Bartholomew Frere">Bartholomew Frere</a>, English diplomat (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elijah_H._Mills" title="Elijah H. Mills">Elijah H. Mills</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1829" title="1829">1829</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Lacey" title="Isaac Lacey">Isaac Lacey</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1844" title="1844">1844</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Louis_Alexis_Baudoin" title="Louis Alexis Baudoin">Louis Alexis Baudoin</a>, French naval officer (d. <a href="/wiki/1805" title="1805">1805</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_3" title="December 3">December 3</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yashwantrao_Holkar" title="Yashwantrao Holkar">Yashwantrao Holkar</a>, Ruler of Holkar State (d. <a href="/wiki/1811" title="1811">1811</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Charles_Seringe" title="Nicolas Charles Seringe">Nicolas Charles Seringe</a>, French physician, botanist (d. <a href="/wiki/1858" title="1858">1858</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Johann_Martin_Langenbeck" title="Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck">Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck</a>, German surgeon (d. <a href="/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_6" title="December 6">December 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Theodorick_Bland_(judge)" title="Theodorick Bland (judge)">Theodorick Bland</a>, United States federal judge (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_7" title="December 7">December 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Reuben_Whallon" title="Reuben Whallon">Reuben Whallon</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1843" title="1843">1843</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Dehon" title="Theodore Dehon">Theodore Dehon</a>, second Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina (d. <a href="/wiki/1817" title="1817">1817</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Logan_(Kentuckian)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Logan (Kentuckian)">William Logan</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1822" title="1822">1822</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_10" title="December 10">December 10</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archduchess_Maria_Leopoldine_of_Austria-Este" title="Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este">Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este</a>, second wife of Charles Theodore (d. <a href="/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Marchand" title="David Marchand">David Marchand</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Mendelssohn_Bartholdy" title="Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy">Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy</a>, German banker, father of classical composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (d. <a href="/wiki/1835" title="1835">1835</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Conyngham_Tindal" title="Nicholas Conyngham Tindal">Nicholas Conyngham Tindal</a>, English lawyer, politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_13" title="December 13">December 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_Hawkes_(congressman)" title="James Hawkes (congressman)">James Hawkes</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_14" title="December 14">December 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ingelbrecht_Knudss%C3%B8n" title="Ingelbrecht Knudssøn">Ingelbrecht Knudssøn</a>, Norwegian politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1826" title="1826">1826</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Narciso_Dur%C3%A1n" title="Narciso Durán">Narciso Durán</a>, Spanish Franciscan missionary to Mexico (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg/110px-Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg/165px-Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg/220px-Ritter-Johann-Wilhelm-1804.jpg 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="1124" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wilhelm_Ritter" title="Johann Wilhelm Ritter">Johann Wilhelm Ritter</a></figcaption></figure></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wilhelm_Ritter" title="Johann Wilhelm Ritter">Johann Wilhelm Ritter</a>, German chemist (d. <a href="/wiki/1810" title="1810">1810</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Edward_Somerset" title="Lord Edward Somerset">Lord Edward Somerset</a>, British Army general (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lars_Roverud" title="Lars Roverud">Lars Roverud</a>, Norwegian musician (d. <a href="/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebio_Bardaj%C3%AD_y_Azara" title="Eusebio Bardají y Azara">Eusebio Bardají y Azara</a>, Prime Minister of Spain (d. <a href="/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_20" title="December 20">December 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_del_Castillo_y_Rada" title="José María del Castillo y Rada">José María del Castillo y Rada</a>, President of Colombia (d. <a href="/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Slater_(industrialist)" title="John Slater (industrialist)">John Slater</a>, American businessman (d. <a href="/wiki/1843" title="1843">1843</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Smith" title="Charles Hamilton Smith">Charles Hamilton Smith</a>, British artist (d. <a href="/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_27" title="December 27">December 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Kamensky" title="Nikolay Kamensky">Nikolay Kamensky</a>, Russian general (d. <a href="/wiki/1811" title="1811">1811</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_29" title="December 29">December 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gustaf_af_Wetterstedt" title="Gustaf af Wetterstedt">Gustaf af Wetterstedt</a>, Swedish politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_30" title="December 30">December 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Drayton" title="William Drayton">William Drayton</a>, American politician (d. <a href="/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Johann_Spurzheim" title="Johann Spurzheim">Johann Spurzheim</a>, German physician (d. <a href="/wiki/1832" title="1832">1832</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1776&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_G_Montresor_bw.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/James_G_Montresor_bw.jpg/120px-James_G_Montresor_bw.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/James_G_Montresor_bw.jpg/250px-James_G_Montresor_bw.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1045" data-file-height="1641" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/James_Gabriel_Montresor" title="James Gabriel Montresor">James Gabriel Montresor</a></figcaption></figure> <figure 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title="1726">1726</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_14" title="January 14">January 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Edward_Cornwallis" title="Edward Cornwallis">Edward Cornwallis</a>, British military officer, first Governor of Nova Scotia (b. <a href="/wiki/1713" title="1713">1713</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_21" title="January 21">January 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_de_Romas" title="Jacques de Romas">Jacques de Romas</a>, French physicist (b. <a href="/wiki/1713" title="1713">1713</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Catherine_Ballard" class="mw-redirect" title="Élisabeth Catherine Ballard">Élisabeth Catherine Ballard</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1704" title="1704">1704</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lady_Anne_Monson" title="Lady Anne Monson">Lady Anne Monson</a>, English botanist (b. <a href="/wiki/1726" title="1726">1726</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Johann_Georg_Ziesenis" title="Johann Georg Ziesenis">Johann Georg Ziesenis</a>, German – Danish portrait painter (b. <a href="/wiki/1716" title="1716">1716</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Robert_Le_Cornier_de_Cideville" title="Pierre-Robert Le Cornier de Cideville">Pierre-Robert Le Cornier de Cideville</a>, French magistrate and scholar (b. <a href="/wiki/1693" title="1693">1693</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Bowes,_9th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne" title="John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne">John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1737" title="1737">1737</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie_Catherine_Fr%C3%A9ron" title="Élie Catherine Fréron">Élie Catherine Fréron</a>, French critic (b. <a href="/wiki/1719" title="1719">1719</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niclas_Sahlgren" title="Niclas Sahlgren">Niclas Sahlgren</a>, Swedish merchant, philanthropist (b. <a href="/wiki/1701" title="1701">1701</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Harrison" title="John Harrison">John Harrison</a>, English clockmaker (b. <a href="/wiki/1693" title="1693">1693</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ward_(Rhode_Island_politician)" title="Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician)">Samuel Ward</a>, American politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1725" title="1725">1725</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gotthelf_Lindner" title="Johann Gotthelf Lindner">Johann Gotthelf Lindner</a>, German university teacher and writer (b. <a href="/wiki/1729" title="1729">1729</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Belcher_(jurist)" title="Jonathan Belcher (jurist)">Jonathan Belcher</a>, British-American lawyer (b. <a href="/wiki/1710" title="1710">1710</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jane_Randolph_Jefferson" title="Jane Randolph Jefferson">Jane Randolph Jefferson</a>, wife of Peter Jefferson and the mother of US president Thomas Jefferson (b. <a href="/wiki/1720" title="1720">1720</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_7" title="April 7">April 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles-Pierre_Colardeau" title="Charles-Pierre Colardeau">Charles-Pierre Colardeau</a>, French poet (b. <a href="/wiki/1732" title="1732">1732</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">April 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Emden" title="Jacob Emden">Jacob Emden</a>, leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism (b. <a href="/wiki/1697" title="1697">1697</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Olivier_de_V%C3%A9zin" title="Olivier de Vézin">Olivier de Vézin</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1707" title="1707">1707</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_29" title="April 29">April 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Edward_Wortley_Montagu_(traveller)" title="Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller)">Edward Wortley Montagu</a>, English traveller and writer (b. <a href="/wiki/1713" title="1713">1713</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Saly" title="Jacques Saly">Jacques Saly</a>, French sculptor (b. <a href="/wiki/1717" title="1717">1717</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_Kent_(composer)" title="James Kent (composer)">James Kent</a>, English organist and composer (b. <a href="/wiki/1700" title="1700">1700</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_7" title="May 7">May 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Duchess_Maria_Anna_Josepha_of_Bavaria" title="Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria">Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria</a>, Duchess of Bavaria by birth and Margravine of Baden-Baden by marriage (b. <a href="/wiki/1734" title="1734">1734</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_23" title="May 23">May 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Julie_%C3%89l%C3%A9onore_de_Lespinasse" title="Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse">Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse</a>, French salon holder (b. <a href="/wiki/1732" title="1732">1732</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzWilliam,_6th_Viscount_FitzWilliam" title="Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam">Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1711" title="1711">1711</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_30" title="May 30">May 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Albert_Frick_(theologian)" title="Albert Frick (theologian)">Albert Frick</a>, German theologian (b. <a href="/wiki/1714" title="1714">1714</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a> – Continental Army General <a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(American_general)" title="John Thomas (American general)">John Thomas</a>, from smallpox (b. <a href="/wiki/1724" title="1724">1724</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hsinbyushin" title="Hsinbyushin">Hsinbyushin</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1736" title="1736">1736</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopold_Widhalm" title="Leopold Widhalm">Leopold Widhalm</a>, Austrian <a href="/wiki/Luthier" title="Luthier">luthier</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1722" title="1722">1722</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Scott_(hymnwriter)" title="Elizabeth Scott (hymnwriter)">Elizabeth Scott</a>, British-American poet and Christian hymnwriter (b. <a href="/wiki/1708" title="1708">1708</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Huntsman" title="Benjamin Huntsman">Benjamin Huntsman</a>, English inventor, manufacturer (b. <a href="/wiki/1704" title="1704">1704</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Markland" title="Jeremiah Markland">Jeremiah Markland</a>, English classical scholar (b. <a href="/wiki/1693" title="1693">1693</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Peters_(priest)" title="Richard Peters (priest)">Richard Peters</a>, English-born American clergyman (b. <a href="/wiki/1704" title="1704">1704</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_15" title="July 15">July 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bampfylde" title="Richard Bampfylde">Richard Bampfylde</a>, British politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1722" title="1722">1722</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_16" title="July 16">July 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Countess_Palatine_Francisca_Christina_of_Sulzbach" title="Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach">Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach</a>, Princess-abbess of Essen Abbey and Thorn Abbey (b. <a href="/wiki/1696" title="1696">1696</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_21" title="July 21">July 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Benedicta_Margareta_von_L%C3%B6wendal" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal">Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal</a>, German industrialist (b. <a href="/wiki/1683" title="1683">1683</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Bentham" title="Edward Bentham">Edward Bentham</a>, Oxford based theologian who in 1763 (b. <a href="/wiki/1707" title="1707">1707</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Salvador" title="Francis Salvador">Francis Salvador</a>, American patriot (b. <a href="/wiki/1747" title="1747">1747</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2" title="August 2">August 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois,_Prince_of_Conti" title="Louis François, Prince of Conti">Louis François, Prince of Conti</a>, French military leader (b. <a href="/wiki/1717" title="1717">1717</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_14" title="August 14">August 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Cathcart,_9th_Lord_Cathcart" title="Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart">Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1721" title="1721">1721</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">August 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a>, Scottish philosopher (b. <a href="/wiki/1711" title="1711">1711</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_27" title="August 27">August 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_Stark_(loyalist)" title="William Stark (loyalist)">William Stark</a>, Revolutionary War era officer (b. <a href="/wiki/1724" title="1724">1724</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_29" title="August 29">August 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Arnold_(Rhode_Island_farmer)" title="Joseph Arnold (Rhode Island farmer)">Joseph Arnold</a>, pre-revolutionary resident of North Kingstown and Exeter (b. <a href="/wiki/1710" title="1710">1710</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Angelica_Le_Gru_Perotti" title="Angelica Le Gru Perotti">Angelica Le Gru Perotti</a>, Italian woman painter of the Rococo (b. <a href="/wiki/1719" title="1719">1719</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chamaraja_Wodeyar_VIII" title="Chamaraja Wodeyar VIII">Chamaraja Wodeyar VIII</a>, twentieth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1770 to 1776 (b. <a href="/wiki/1759" title="1759">1759</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Hale" title="Nathan Hale">Nathan Hale</a>, American Revolutionary War captain, writer and patriot (executed) (b. <a href="/wiki/1755" title="1755">1755</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_24" title="September 24">September 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Cadogan,_2nd_Baron_Cadogan" title="Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan">Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan</a>, Anglo-Irish peer (b. <a href="/wiki/1685" title="1685">1685</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_28" title="September 28">September 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cadwallader_Colden" title="Cadwallader Colden">Cadwallader Colden</a>, physician (b. <a href="/wiki/1688" title="1688">1688</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ay%C5%9Fe_Sultan_(daughter_of_Ahmed_III)" title="Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)">Ayşe Sultan</a>, Ottoman princess (b. <a href="/wiki/1713" title="1713">1713</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_10" title="October 10">October 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Karl_Gotthelf_von_Hund" title="Karl Gotthelf von Hund">Karl Gotthelf von Hund</a>, German Freemason (b. <a href="/wiki/1722" title="1722">1722</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Ellis_(naturalist)" title="John Ellis (naturalist)">John Ellis</a>, naturalist (b. <a href="/wiki/1710" title="1710">1710</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Courayer" title="Pierre François le Courayer">Pierre François le Courayer</a>, French theologian (b. <a href="/wiki/1681" title="1681">1681</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Princess_Sophie_of_Saxe-Hildburghausen" title="Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen">Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen</a>, Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen by birth (b. <a href="/wiki/1760" title="1760">1760</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_30" title="October 30">October 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_de_Anda_y_Salazar" title="Simón de Anda y Salazar">Simón de Anda y Salazar</a>, Spanish Basque governor of the Philippines from July (b. <a href="/wiki/1709" title="1709">1709</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fernando_de_Silva,_12th_Duke_of_Alba" title="Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba">Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba</a>, Spanish duke (b. <a href="/wiki/1714" title="1714">1714</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_Ferguson_(Scottish_astronomer)" title="James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer)">James Ferguson</a>, Scottish astronomer (b. <a href="/wiki/1710" title="1710">1710</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">November 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9ophile_de_Bordeu" title="Théophile de Bordeu">Théophile de Bordeu</a>, French physician (b. <a href="/wiki/1722" title="1722">1722</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Percy,_Duchess_of_Northumberland_(1716%E2%80%931776)" title="Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776)">Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland</a>, British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber (b. <a href="/wiki/1716" title="1716">1716</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_10" 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Willoughby Rosse (1856). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=690">"1776"</a>. <i>Blair's Chronological Tables</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Henry_George_Bohn" title="Henry George Bohn">H.G. 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