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1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

Death of Dolly Pentreath, claimed to be the last speaker of the Cornish Language.
2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published.
January 3 - American Revolutionary War: 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 Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
June 13 - American Revolutionary War: 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.
August 16 - American Revolutionary War: 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 Revolutionary War: First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
October 4 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Germantown- Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
October 17 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Saratoga- American troops defeat the British.
November 15 - American Revolutionary War: 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 24 - Kiritimati discovered by James Cook.
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

January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
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)
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)
Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (d. 1849)

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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