Page 4: Historical Events In 1776

Sep 12   Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission on this day in history.   

Sep 15   British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution on this day in history.   

Sep 15   British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution on this day in history.   

Sep 17   On this day in history presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort   

Sep 21   5 days after British take NY, a ¼ of city burns down in the year 1776.   

Sep 21   In the year 1776 great fire in NY   

Sep 22   On this day in history american patriot, captain Nathan Hale executed for spying   

Sep 22   Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 on this day in history.   

Sep 24   1st St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster in the year 1776.   

Sep 27   On this day in history maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress (General Moreau & Marshal Ney)   

Oct 07   On this day in history crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.   

Oct 09   Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay in the year 1776.   

Oct 09   In the year 1776 spanish missionaries first settle in what is now San Francisco, California.   

Oct 11   Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters in the year 1776.   

Oct 11   In the year 1776 brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British   

Oct 12   British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx on this day in history.   

Oct 12   British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in the Bronx on this day in history.   

Oct 18   In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" on this day in history.   

Oct 26   Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution in the year 1776.   

Oct 27   A Danish fort in the Virgin Islands becomes the first foreign nation to salute the U.S. flag when it recognizes a U.S. schooner on this day in history.   

Oct 28   In the year 1776 battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ   

Nov 01   In the year 1776 mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California   

Nov 01   In the year 1776 san Juan Capistrano Mission founded in California   

Nov 14   Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis in the year 1776.   

Nov 16   In the year 1776 1st gun salute   

Nov 16   In the year 1776 hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan   

Nov 18   On this day in history hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ   

Nov 18   Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ in the year 1776.   

Nov 22   Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Nov 26   On this day in history dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies   

Nov 30   Capt Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea) in the year 1776.   

Dec 05   In the year 1776 1st US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), forms   

Dec 05   In the year 1776 phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded   

Dec 06   On this day in history paul Friedrich Struck, composer   

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Jan 06   In the year 1776 birth of ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel   

Jan 24   On this day in history birth of ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)   

Feb 11   In the year 1776 birth of joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen (1827-31)   

Feb 11   Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 18   In the year 1776 birth of john Parry, composer   

Feb 21   In the year 1776 birth of vincenzo Lavigna, composer   

Feb 23   On this day in history birth of john Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47)   

Mar 10   Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III was born in the year 1776.   

Mar 05   On this day in history death of yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1694)   

Mar 10   On this day in history death of Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)   

Mar 24   On this day in history death of john Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)   

Mar 26   Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725) died on this day in history.   

Apr 19   On this day in history jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78   

Apr 22   On this day in history johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67   

Apr 24   Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84 in the year 1776.   

Apr 29   In the year 1776 death of edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)