1777

1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1777th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 777th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1777, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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1777 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1777
MDCCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita2530
Armenian calendar1226
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԶ
Assyrian calendar6527
Balinese saka calendar1698–1699
Bengali calendar1184
Berber calendar2727
British Regnal year17 Geo. 3 – 18 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2321
Burmese calendar1139
Byzantine calendar7285–7286
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4473 or 4413
    — to —
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4474 or 4414
Coptic calendar1493–1494
Discordian calendar2943
Ethiopian calendar1769–1770
Hebrew calendar5537–5538
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1833–1834
 - Shaka Samvat1698–1699
 - Kali Yuga4877–4878
Holocene calendar11777
Igbo calendar777–778
Iranian calendar1155–1156
Islamic calendar1190–1191
Japanese calendarAn'ei 6
(安永６年)
Javanese calendar1702–1703
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4110
Minguo calendar135 before ROC
民前135年
Nanakshahi calendar309
Thai solar calendar2319–2320
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1903 or 1522 or 750
    — to —
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1904 or 1523 or 751
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January 2: General George Washington at Trenton
October 17: Battles of Saratoga

Events

January–March
  • January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second battle at Trenton, New Jersey.
  • January 3 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Princeton: American general George Washington's army defeats British troops.
  • January 13 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what becomes Santa Clara, California.
  • January 15 – Vermont declares its independence from New York, becoming the Vermont Republic, an independent country, a status it retains until it joins the United States as the 14th state in 1791.
  • January 21 – The Continental Congress approves a resolution "that an unauthentic copy, with names of the signers of the Declaration of independence, be sent to each of the United States.[1]
  • February 5 – Under the 1st Constitution of Georgia, 8 counties are chartered: Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond, and Wilkes. This dissolves the existing parishes of St. George, St. Mary's, St. Thomas, St. Phillip, Christ Church, St. David, St. Matthews, St. Andrew, St. James, St. Johns, and St. Paul.[2]
  • February 24 – King Joseph I of Portugal dies, and is succeeded by his daughter Maria I of Portugal, and his brother and son-in-law Peter III of Portugal.
  • March 4 – The Fourth Continental Congress, with John Hancock as President, who is also known by, begins a 199 day session in Philadelphia, lasting until September 18.[1]
  • March 29–30 – Third voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain Cook discovers Mangaia and Atiu in the Cook Islands.[3]

April–June
June 14: US Flag (had various star patterns)

July–December

Date unknown
  • The code duello is adopted at the Clonmel Summer Assizes as the form for pistol duels by gentlemen in Ireland. It is quickly denounced, but nevertheless widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world.
  • Kunsthochschule Kassel is founded in Germany as a fine arts academy.
  • Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded in Copenhagen (Denmark) as an acting academy.
  • George II Frederic is crowned as king of the Miskito Kingdom.

Births

January–March
  • January – William Barton, English cricketer (d. 1825)
  • January 2 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
  • January 7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (d. 1850)
  • January 11 – Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant, rebel leader (d. 1837)
  • January 13 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)
  • January 25 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (d.1848)
  • February 3 – John Cheyne, British physician, surgeon and author (d. 1836)
  • February 10 – Amable Berthelot, Quebec lawyer, author and political figure (d. 1847)
  • February 12
    • Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, French poet (d. 1843)
    • Bernard Courtois, French chemist (d. 1838)
  • February 18 – Andreas Arntzen, Norwegian politician (d. 1837)
  • February 20 – Zacheus Burnham, Canadian farmer, judge and public figure (d. 1857)
  • February 26 – Matija Nenadović, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 1854)
  • March 3 – Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (d. 1857)
  • March 10 – Robert Allison (Pennsylvania politician), U.S. Representative (d. 1840)
  • March 13 – Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864)
Roger B. Taney

April–June
Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer and physicist (d. 1855)
  • May 4 – Richard Bourke, Australian governor (d. 1855)
  • May 8 – Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Karelian folksinger (d. 1846)
  • May 11 – Samuel Bridger, English cricketer
  • May 12 – Mary Reibey, Australian businessperson (d. 1855)
  • May 18 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (d. 1852)
  • June 1 – Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, president of Chile (d. 1841)
  • June 12 – Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
  • June 14 – Heman Allen (of Milton), U.S. Representative (d. 1844)
  • June 15 – David Daniel Davis, British physician (d. 1841)
  • June 22
    • Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Polish-born Catholic archbishop of Prague (d. 1838)
    • William Brown (admiral), Irish-born first admiral of Argentina (d. 1857)
  • June 23 – Frederick Bates, American politician (d. 1825)

July–September
Paavo Ruotsalainen
  • July – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer, politician (d. 1854)
  • July 9
    • Henry Hallam, English historian (d. 1859)
    • Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer and lay preacher (d. 1852)[7]
  • July 23 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
  • July 26 – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Scottish-American educator, minister (d. 1855)
  • July 27
    • Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, German physicist (d. 1834)
    • Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844)
    • Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer, soldier (d. 1853)
  • July 31 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman, priest (d. 1849)
  • August 11 – Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter (d. 1815)
  • August 12 – George Wolf, American politician (d. 1840)
Hans Christian Ørsted

October–December
  • October 1 – Zaro Aga, Turkish-Kurdish possible supercentenarian (claimed to have been born this year or 1774; d. 1934)
  • October 5 – Guillaume Dupuytren, French anatomist, military surgeon (d. 1835)
  • October 16
    • Levi Barber, American surveyor, court administrator, banker and legislator (d. 1833)
    • Lorenzo Dow, American Methodist preacher (d. 1834)
  • October 18
    • Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, French general (d. 1809)
Heinrich von Kleist
Alexander I of Russia

Date unknown
  • Suleiman al-Halabi, Syrian student, assassin (d. 1800)
  • Carlos Anaya, Uruguayan politician (d. 1862)
  • Charles James Apperley, English sportsman, sporting writer (d. 1843)
  • Carlo Armellini, Italian politician, activist and jurist (d. 1863)
  • Mevlana Halid-i Bagdadi, Ottoman mystic (d. 1826)
  • Connell James Baldwin, Irish soldier, civil servant (d. 1861)
  • Karl Friedrich Becker, German educator, historian (d. 1806)
  • Vicente Benavides, Chilean soldier (d. 1822)
  • John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer) (d. 1857)
  • William Bellinger Bulloch, U.S. Senator (d. 1852)
  • Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (d. 1833)
  • Abiel Chandler, U.S. philanthropist (d. 1851)
  • John Claiborne, U.S. politician (d. 1808)
  • Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac, French artist, scholar and archaeologist (d. 1847)
  • Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (d. 1804)
  • Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (d. 1833)
  • Thomas Day, American judge (d. 1855)
  • Benjamin D'Urban, British general, colonial administrator (d. 1849)
  • Tu'i Malila, Malagasy-born tortoise, longest living animal on record (d. 1965)

Deaths
Enrichetta d'Este
Pierre-Herman Dosquet
Cornelia Schlosser
Consort Shu
Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria
Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon
Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet

January–March
  • January 10 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
  • January 12 – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer, mortally wounded in battle (b. 1726)
  • January 13 – James Rait, Anglican clergyman, Scottish Episcopal Church Bishop of Brechin 1742–1777 (b. 1689)
  • January 27 – Hubert de Brienne, French naval commander (b. 1690)
  • January 30 – Enrichetta d'Este, Duchess of Parma (b. 1702)
  • February 9
    • Captain Abraham Godwin, American marine on USS Washington (1776 row galley) (b. 1724)
    • Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
  • February 11 – Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto, Scottish statesman, philosopher and poet (b. 1722)
  • February 24 – King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
  • February 28 – Joab Hoisington, American major (b. 1736)
  • March 1
    • Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (b. 1711)
    • Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
  • March 2 – Empress Xiaoshengxian, mother of the Chinese Qianlong Emperor of China (b. 1692)
  • March 4 – Pierre-Herman Dosquet, 4th bishop of Quebec (b. 1691)
  • March 6 – Jeremias Friedrich Reuß, German theologian (b. 1700)
  • March 10 – John the Painter, British criminal (b. 1752)
  • March 20 – Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart, French Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1708)
  • March 23 – Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet, Scottish Jacobite and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (b. 1685)
  • March 31 – Richard Terrick, Church of England clergyman, Bishop of Peterborough 1757–1764 and Bishop of London 1764–1777 (b. 1710)

April–June
  • April 7 – Anna Chamber, British noblewoman and poet (b. 1709)
  • April 29 – Antonio Joli, Italian painter of vedute and capricci (b. 1700)
  • May 5 – Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, Palestinian rabbi preaching in the Americas (b. 1733)
  • May 7 – Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, marine captain and colonial administrator in New France (b. 1708)
  • May 9 – Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (b. 1715)
  • May 11 – George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
  • May 19 – Button Gwinnett, a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1735)
  • May 22 – David Wooster, American general in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1711)
  • May 28 – William Douglas, American military officer, leading regiments from Connecticut in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1742)
  • May 31 – Henry Fane of Wormsley, English politician (b. 1703)
  • June 8 – Cornelia Schlosser, sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to survive to adulthood (b. 1750)
  • June 21 – Georg Friedrich Meier, German philosopher and aesthetician (b. 1718)

July–September
  • July 4 – Consort Shu, consort of the Chinese Qianlong Emperor (b. 1728)
  • July 13 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French artist (b. 1716)
  • August 14
    • Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau, Prussian lieutenant general and general inspector of the artillery (b. 1701)
    • Otto Magnus von Schwerin, Prussian general in the army of Frederick the Great (b. 1701)
  • August 23 – Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist, mathematician (b. 1684)
  • August 30 – John Clavering, British Army officer (b. 1722)
  • September 7 – Tekle Haymanot II, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1754)
  • September 16 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, English landowner, diplomat, general and Viceroy of India (b. 1714)
  • September 18 – Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, wife of Frederick (b. 1710)
  • September 19 – Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria (b. 1747)
  • September 20 – Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, British peer (b. 1686)
  • September 22 – John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
  • September 25 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1728)

October–December
  • October 3 – Jeremias van Riemsdijk, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1712)
  • October 4 – Francis Nash, American brigadier general, killed at the Battle of Germantown (b. c. 1742)
  • October 6 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French salon holder (b. 1699)
  • October 7 – Simon Fraser of Balnain, Scottish general during the American Revolutionary War, killed in battle (b. 1729)
  • October 21 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
  • October 25 – Carl von Donop, Hessian colonel fighting in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1732)
  • October 27 – Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, French cardinal-archbishop and Grand Almoner (b. 1697)
  • October 30 – John Hart, American militia officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War (b. 1706)
  • November 1 – Jonathan Hampton, American colonial surveyor (b. 1712)
  • November 6 – Bernard de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1699)
  • November 10 – Cornstalk, Shawnee chief (b. c. 1720)
  • November 13 – William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1699)
  • November 17 – Pratap Singh Shah, 2nd king of Nepal (b. 1751)
  • November 18 – Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, English landowner and politician (b. 1716)
  • November 27 – Henry Stauffer, German settler in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (b. 1724)
  • December 9 – Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet, British Royal Navy officer (b. c. 1704)
  • December 12 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1708)
  • December 25 – Charles Chauncey, English physician (b. 1706)
  • December 26
    • Dolly Pentreath, last-known fluent native speaker of the Cornish language (b. 1692)
    • Ricardo Wall, Spanish-Irish cavalry officer (b. 1694)
  • December 27 – Frederick Keppel, Church of England clergyman (b. 1728)
  • December 30 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria 1745–1777 (b. 1727)[8]
  • October 22 – Friedrich Baum, German dragoon Lieutenant Colonel of Brunswick in British service during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1748)

References
  1. Lossing, Benson John; Wilson, Woodrow, eds. (1910). Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909. Harper & Brothers. p. 166.
  2. Vyas, Amee. "Georgia's County Governments." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 31 October 2018. Web. 05 February 2019.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/georgias-county-governments
  3. King, Joseph (1899). Christianity in Polynesia: A Study and a Defence. William Brooks and Co. p. 71.
  4. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 331. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. Harris, Michael (2014). Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatiuùuù hie. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-61121-162-7.
  6. Ketchum, Richard M (1997). Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War. New York: Henry Holt. p. 52-55. ISBN 978-0-8050-6123-9. OCLC 41397623. (Paperback ISBN 0-8050-6123-1)
  7. Paavo Ruotsalainen – Aholansaari (in Finnish)
  8. "Maximilian III Joseph | elector of Bavaria | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 16, 2022.

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