أحداث العام 1776 في الولايات المتحدة. هذا العام يُحتفل به في الولايات المتحدة كالبداية الرسمية لميلادها كأمة، بإصدار إعلان الاستقلال في أربعة يوليو.

الأحداث

يناير

• 10 يناير – توماس پين ينشر Common Sense.
• 20 يناير – الثورة الأمريكية: South Carolina Loyalists led by Robert Cunningham sign a petition from prison agreeing to all demands for peace by the newly formed state government of South Carolina.
• 24 يناير
  • الثورة الأمريكية: هنري نوكس arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
  • الثورة الأمريكية: The Continental Congress writes the third and final letter to the inhabitants of Canada urging Quebec to join the revolution.

فبراير

• February 27 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge: North Carolina Loyalists charge across Moore's Creek bridge near Wilmington to attack what they mistakenly believe to be a small force of rebels. Several loyalist leaders are killed in the ensuing battle. The patriot victory virtually ends all British authority in the town.

مارس

• March 2–3 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of the Rice Boats: Following the British seizure of rice from merchant ships on the Savannah River, militia from Georgia and South Carolina attack the British squadron on the river using fire ships.
• March أربعة – الثورة الأمريكية: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
• March 17 – الثورة الأمريكية: Threatened by Patriot cannons on Dorchester Heights, the British evacuate Boston.
• March 28 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

أبريل

• April 12 – الثورة الأمريكية: The Royal Colony of North Carolina produces the Halifax Resolves making it the first British colony to officially authorize its Continental Congress delegates to vote for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

مايو

• 4 مايو– Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to جورج الثالث.

يونيو

• Juneسبعة – الثورة الأمريكية: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes to the Continental Congress that "these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."
• Juneثمانية – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Trois-Rivières: American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
• June 11 – الثورة الأمريكية: The Continental Congress appoints the لجنة الخمسة to draft the Declaration of Independence.
• 12 يونيو– الثورة الأمريكية: Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason adopted by the Virginia Convention of Delegates.
• June 15 – الثورة الأمريكية: Delaware Separation Day: The Delaware General Assembly votes to suspend government under the British Crown.
• June 17 – Lt. Jose Joaquin Moraga leads a band of colonists from Monterey Presidio, landing on June 29 and, with Father Francisco Palóu, constructing the Mission San Francisco de Asís ("Mission Dolores") of the new Presidio of San Francisco, the oldest surviving building in the modern-day city.
• June 28 – The Committee of Five presents their United States Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress.
• 29 يونيو– الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet – البحرية القارية تنجح في تحدي البحرية الملكية البريطانية التي كانت تحاصر مقاطعة كيپ ماي، نيوجرزي.

يوليو

• 2 يوليو– الثورة الأمريكية: The final (despite minor revisions) U.S. Declaration of Independence is written. The Continental Congress passes the Lee Resolution.
• 4 يوليو– الثورة الأمريكية: إعلان استقلال الولايات المتحدة. الولايات المتحدة تعلن رسمياً استقلالها عن الامبراطورية البريطانية.
• 8 يوليو– الثورة الأمريكية: The Liberty Bell rings for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
• 9 يوليو– الثورة الأمريكية: عصابة غاضبة في مدينة نيويورك تطيح بالتمثال الفروسي للملك جورج الثالث في بولنگ گرين.
• 29 يوليو- Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe on an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest. They are the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.

أغسطس

• August 15 – الثورة الأمريكية: First Hessian troops land on Staten Island to join British forces.
• August 27 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Long Island: Washington's troops routed in Brooklyn by British under William Howe.

سبتمبر

• September 1 - Invasion of Cherokee Nation by 6,000 patriot troops from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina begins. The troops destroy thirty-six Cherokee towns.
• Septemberسبعة – الثورة الأمريكية: World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
• September 11 – الثورة الأمريكية: The British and Americans meet at the Staten Island Peace Conference seeking to end the revolution. The meeting is brief and unsuccessful.
• September 15 – الثورة الأمريكية: British land on Manhattan at Kip's Bay.
• September 16 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Harlem Heights is fought, and won, making it Washington's first battle field victory.
• September 22 – الثورة الأمريكية: Nathan Hale executed in New York City for espionage.

أكتوبر

• 9 أكتوبر – Father Francisco Palou يؤسس Mission San Francisco de Asis في ما الآن سان فرانسسكو، كاليفورنيا.
• 11 أكتوبر – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Valcour Island: On بحيرة شامپلين بالقرب من جزيرة ڤالكور, a British fleet led by Sir Guy Carleton defeats 15 American gunboats commanded by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold. Although nearly all of Arnold's ships are destroyed, the two-day-long battle will give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of مدينة نيويورك.
• October 28 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of White Plains: British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• October 31 – In his first speech before British Parliament since the Declaration of Independence that summer, جورج الثالث acknowledges that all is not going well for Britain in the war with the الولايات المتحدة.

نوفمبر

• November 10–28 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Fort Cumberland.
• November 16 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Fort Washington – Hessian forces under Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen capture Fort Washington (Manhattan) from the American Continental Army.
• November 20 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Fort Lee – Invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army.

ديسمبر

• Decemberسبعة – الثورة الأمريكية: Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
• December 14 – الثورة الأمريكية: Ambush of Geary
• December 21 – الثورة الأمريكية: The Royal Colony of North Carolina reorganizes into the State of North Carolina after adopting its own constitution. Richard Caswell becomes the first governor of the newly formed state.
• December 22–23 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Iron Works Hill
• December 23 – الثورة الأمريكية: Thomas Paine, living with Washington's troops, begins publishing The American Crisis, containing the stirring phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls."
• December 25 – الثورة الأمريكية: George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River: Gen. George Washington orders the first issue of The American Crisis read to his troops on Christmas Eve, then atستة p.m. all 2600 of them march to McKonkey's Ferry, cross the Delaware River and land on the Jersey bank at ثلاثة a.m.
• December 26 – الثورة الأمريكية: Battle of Trenton: Washington's troops surprise the 1500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. Johann Rall atثمانية a.m. outside Trenton and score a victory, taking 948 prisoners while suffering onlyخمسة wounded.

مستمرة

• الحرب الثورية الأمريكية (1775–1783)

المواليد

يناير-يونيو

• January 1 – James M. Broom, politician (died 1850)
• January 2 – Jeremiah Chaplin, Reformed Baptist theologian (died 1841)
• January 16 – Matthew Brown, college president (died 1853)
• January 21 – Elisha Haley, politician (died 1860)
• January 24 – Peter A. Jay, politician (died 1843)
• February 26 – Innis Green, congressman for Pennsylvania (died 1839)
• March 1
  • John Collins, manufacturer and politician (died 1822)
  • Elias Moore, American-born politician (died 1847 in Canada)
• March ثلاثة – James Parker, politician (died 1868)
• Marchخمسة – Gerard Troost, mineralogist (died 1850)
• March 8
  • David Rogerson Williams, politician (died 1830)
  • Samuel Tweedy, politician (died 1868)
• March 17 – Joel Abbot, politician (died 1826)
• March 19 – Philemon Beecher, politician (died 1839)
• March 20 – Joshua Bates, educator (died 1854)
• Aprilستة – Jesse Bledsoe, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1813 to 1814 (died 1836)
• April 25 – James Miller, politician and military general (died 1851)
• Mayخمسة – Valentine Efner, politician (died 1865)
• Mayستة – Rensselaer Westerlo, politician (died 1851)
• May 13 – Jett Thomas, militia general (died 1817)
• May 17 – Amos Eaton, naturalist and pioneer of scientific education (died 1842)
• May 18 – Dennis Pennington, politician (died 1854)
• May 31 – José Antonio de la Garza, mayor (died 1851)
• June أربعة – Isaac B. Van Houten, politician (died 1850)
• Juneستة – William Reed, politician (died 1837)
• June 19 – Francis Johnson, congressman (died 1842)
• June 23 – Stephen Longfellow, politician (died 1849)

يوليو-ديسمبر

• July 1 – Samuel Thatcher, politician (died 1872
• July أربعة – Ethan Allen Brown, politician (died 1852)
• July 5
  • Daniel Dobbins, captain in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (died 1856)
  • Bernard Smith, politician (died 1835)
• Julyعشرة – Samuel Powell, politician (died 1841)
• July 29 – James McSherry, politician (died 1849)
• August 13 – Abraham Shepherd, politician (died 1847)
• August 21 – Joseph Healy, politician (died 1861)
• August 26 – Henry A. Livingston, politician (died 1849)
• September 1 – Ezekiel Bacon, politician (died 1870)
• September أربعة – Stephen Whitney, merchant (died 1860)
• Septemberتسعة – Parmenio Adams, politician (died 1832)
• September 15
  • William Baylies, politician (died 1865)
  • Calvin Willey, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1825 to 1831 (died 1858)
• September 17 – Langdon Cheves, politician (died 1857)
• October 18 – Cowles Mead, politician (died 1844)
• October 30
  • George M. Bibb, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1811 to 1814 (died 1859)
  • John Hahn, politician (died 1823)
• October 31 – Francis Locke, politician (died 1823)
• November 1 – Abraham McClellan, politician (died 1851)
• Novemberسبعة – Bartow White, politician (died 1862)
• November 10
  • Samuel Gross, politician (died 1839)
  • General Washington Johnston, politician (died 1833)
• December 1
  • Elijah H. Mills, politician (died 1829)
  • Isaac Lacey, politician (died 1844)
• Decemberسبعة – Reuben Whallon, politician (died 1843)
• Decemberثمانية – William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (died 1822)
• Decemberعشرة – David Marchand, politician (died 1832)
• December 13 – James Hawkes, congressman (died 1865)
• December 25 – John Slater, businessman (died 1843)
• December 30 – William Drayton, politician (died 1846)

الوفيات

• March 26 – Samuel Ward, politician (born 1725)
• March 30 – Jonathan Belcher, lawyer, chief justice, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (born 1710)
• August 1 – Francis Salvador, patriot (born 1747)
• September 22 – Nathan Hale, spy (born 1755; executed)
• December 27 – Johann Rall, Hessian colonel (born 1726ح. 1726)

انظر أيضاً

• 1776 في بريطانيا العظمى

الهامش

وصلات خارجية

• "1776". Timeline. Digital Public Library of America.