1777

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1777 in art
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* The Cornish language died out\n* 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published\n* January 3 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. \n*January 12 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California\n*January 16 - 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\n* June 13 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army. \n* June 14 - Stars and Stripes adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.\n* August 16 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops. \n* September 3 - American Revolutionary War: The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Maryland. \n* October 17 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Saratoga- American troops defeat the British. \n* 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.\n*November 29 - San Jose, California founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California. \n* December 24 - Kiritimati discovered by James Cook\n* The code duello is adopted at the Clonmell Summer Assizes as the form for pistol duels in Ireland. It is quickly denounced and widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world. \n

Births

\n* January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor \n* February 12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, poet \n* March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States \n* April 12 - Henry Clay, American statesman \n* April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist\n* August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist\n* October 16 - Lorenzo Dow, founder of the camp meeting movement\n* December 4 - Madame Récamier, writer\n* December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia

Deaths

\n* February 24 - King Joseph I of Portugal\n* August 16 - Elvis Presley\n* September 22 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n