1777

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Year 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1777

January - June

January 3 - American Revolution: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
January 12 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.

January 15 - Vermont declares its independence from New York becoming an independent country, a status it retained until it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791.
May 16 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
June 13 - American Revolution: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina to help the Continental Congress train its army.
June 14 - Stars and Stripes adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.

July - December

August 16 - American Revolution: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
September 3 - 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.
September 11 - Battle of Brandywine - Major American Revolutionary war victory for British in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
September 19 - American Revolution: First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
October 4 - American Revolution: Battle of Germantown- Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
October 17 - American Revolution: Battle of Saratoga- American troops defeat the British.
November 15 - American Revolution: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation in the temporary American capital at York, Pennsylvania.
November 17 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
November 29 - San Jose, California founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California.
December - Death of Dolly Pentreath, claimed to be the last speaker of the Cornish language.
December 19 - American Revolution: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
December 24 - Kiritimati discovered by James Cook.

Undated

The 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
The code duello is adopted at the Clonmell Summer Assizes as the form for pistol duels in Ireland. It is quickly denounced but nevertheless widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world.

Births

**1777 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1777 MDCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2530
Armenian calendar	1226 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԶ
Bah' calendar	-67 – -66
Buddhist calendar	2321
Chinese calendar	4413/4473-7-19 (丙申年七月十九日) — to — 4414/4474-6-28 (丁酉年六月廿八日)
Coptic calendar	1493 – 1494
Ethiopian calendar	1769 – 1770
Hebrew calendar	5537 – 5538
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1832 – 1833
- Shaka Samvat	1699 – 1700
- Kali Yuga	4878 – 4879
Holocene calendar	11777
Iranian calendar	1155 – 1156
Islamic calendar	1191 – 1192
Japanese calendar	An'ei 0 (安永0年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2437 (皇紀2437年)
Julian calendar	1822
Korean calendar	4110
Thai solar calendar	2320
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October 1 - Zaro Aga d.(1934)
January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
January 5 - Robert Hart, Father of the British 1820 settlers to South Africa (d. 1867)
February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, French poet (d. 1843)
March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1864)
April 12 - Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852)
April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
June 12 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)
October 16 - Lorenzo Dow, American Methodist preacher (d. 1834)
October 18 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
December 4 - Madame Récamier, French writer (d. 1849)
December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
date unknown - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (d. 1849)

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San Jose (California City) was founded.

Deaths

January 10 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
January 12 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle)
February 9 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
February 24 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
March 1 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
May 11 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
May 19 - Button Gwinnett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1735)
September 22 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
September 25 - Johann H. Lambert, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1728)
October 21 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
November 10 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief

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Months and days of the year
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November	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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-1770- 1771 1772 1773 1774 ^. 1775 ^. 1776 ^. 1777 ^. 1778 ^. 1779 ^. 1780

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-1777- 1778 ^. 1779 ^. 1780 1781 ^. 1782 ^. 1783 ^. 1784 ^. 1785 ^. 1786 ^.
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Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in England.

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-1777- 1778 ^. 1779 ^. 1780 1781 ^. 1782 ^. 1783 ^. 1784 ^. 1785 ^. 1786 ^.
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July 4 - Near Fort Ticonderoga, General Burgoyne offers condonement if colonists lay down their arms.

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1777 in Great Britain:
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Ashanti Confederacy -

Osei Kwadwo, Asantehene (1764-1777)

Atakora Kwame, Regent (1777)

Osei Kwame Panyin, Asantehene (1777-1803)

Dahomey - Kpengla, King of Dahomey (1774-1789)

Ethiopia -

Tekle Haymanot II, Emperor of Ethiopia (1769 - 1777)

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Angola

Macau -
Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha, Governor of Macau (1771-1777)
D. Alexdra da Silva Pedrosa Guimares, Governor of Macau (1777-1778)

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