Today in History for Year 1777

Months in Year 1777: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 47 of 47

Jan 3rd - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
Jan 12th - Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Calif
Jan 15th - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
Jan 16th - Vermont declares independence from NY
Jan 18th - San Jose California, founded
Feb 5th - Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
Feb 13th - de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
Feb 16th - Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
Feb 21st - English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
Mar 8th - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
Apr 14th - NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
Apr 16th - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits
Apr 20th - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
Apr 26th - Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
May 1st - RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
May 12th - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
May 13th - University library at Vienna opens
Jun 13th - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
Jun 13th - Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
Jun 14th - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
Jul 2nd - Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
Jul 6th - British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
Jul 7th - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
Jul 8th - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
Jul 31st - Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
Aug 4th - Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
Aug 16th - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
Aug 28th - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
Sep 3rd - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
Sep 11th - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
Sep 19th - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
Sep 20th - Paoli massacre
Sep 25th - English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
Sep 27th - English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution
Sep 30th - Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
First US President George Washington Oct 4th - Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania
Oct 7th - Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts
Oct 15th - Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn)
Oct 17th - British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
Nov 15th - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
Dec 2nd - British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
Dec 8th - Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
Dec 17th - France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
Dec 17th - George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pa
Dec 18th - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
Dec 19th - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
Dec 24th - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 1st - Micah Hawkins, composer
Jan 2nd - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor
Jan 3rd - Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker
Jan 3rd - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino
Jan 8th - Filippo Traetta, Italy, composer/musicologist
Jan 25th - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
Feb 12th - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843)
Mar 9th - Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
Mar 17th - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
Mar 19th - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/diplomat
Mar 31st - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
Apr 12th - Henry Clay, [the Great Compromiser], US politician
Apr 18th - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
Apr 30th - Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician
May 4th - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
May 28th - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
Jun 2nd - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
Jun 12th - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
Jun 24th - John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
Jul 9th - Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian
Jul 23rd - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
Jul 27th - Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
Physicist/Chemist Hans Oersted (Aug 14th) Aug 14th - Hans Christian Oersted, Rudkøbing, Denmark, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law), (d. 1951)
Aug 14th - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
Aug 29th - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
Sep 7th - Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844)
Sep 20th - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
Oct 6th - William Russell, composer
Oct 18th - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
Nov 2nd - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
Nov 2nd - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
Nov 8th - Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
Nov 28th - Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
Dec 2nd - Henry Doeff, colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
Dec 4th - Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)
Dec 14th - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo)
Dec 16th - Janos Fusz, composer
Dec 23rd - Aleksandr I P Romanov, tsar of Russia (1801-25)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 1st - Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58
Jan 10th - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
Jan 12th - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
Feb 9th - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
Feb 24th - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
Mar 1st - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62
Mar 22nd - John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
May 11th - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
May 16th - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
Jun 16th - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
Jun 22nd - Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71
Jul 13th - Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
Jul 27th - William Hayes, composer, dies at 69
Aug 17th - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54
Aug 23rd - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
Sep 1st - Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55
Sep 25th - Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
Oct 5th - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
Oct 7th - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
Oct 13th - Dismas Hatas, composer, dies at 52
Oct 21st - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
Nov 10th - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
Nov 30th - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
Dec 12th - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
Dec 12th - Reverend Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn England for rape
Dec 30th - Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50