1777
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s |
| Years: | 1774 1775 1776 - 1777 - 1778 1779 1780 |
| 1777 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada - Great Britain - |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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- January 3 - American Revolution - Battle of Princeton: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.
- 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 retains until it joins 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 United States Declaration of Independence, dies 3 days later.
- June 13 - American Revolution: The Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina to help the Continental Congress train its army.
- June 24 - The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.
- August 16 - American Revolution - Battle of Bennington: British forces are defeated by American troops.
- September 3 - American Revolution - Cooch's Bridge: In a minor skirmish in New Castle County, Delaware, the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
- September 11 - American Revolution - Battle of Brandywine: The British gain a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
- September 19 - American Revolution - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights: British General John Burgoyne is defeated by American troops.
- October 4 - American Revolution - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- October 17 - American Revolution- Battle of Saratoga: British General John Burgoyne surrenders to the American troops.
- November 15 - American Revolution: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation in the temporary American capital at York, Pennsylvania.
- November 17 - The Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
- November 29 - San Jose, California is founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California.
- December 19 - American Revolution: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
- December 24 - Kiritimati is discovered by James Cook.
- The 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
- 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 1777 MDCCLXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2530 |
| Armenian calendar | 1226 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -67 – -66 |
| Berber calendar | 2727 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2321 |
| Burmese calendar | 1139 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7285 – 7286 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年十一月廿二日 (4413/4473-11-22) — to —
丁酉年十二月初二日(4414/4474-12-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 1493 – 1494 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1769 – 1770 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5537 – 5538 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1832 – 1833 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1699 – 1700 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4878 – 4879 |
| Holocene calendar | 11777 |
| Iranian calendar | 1155 – 1156 |
| Islamic calendar | 1190 – 1191 |
| Japanese calendar | An'ei 6 (安永6年) |
| Korean calendar | 4110 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2320 |
- January - William Barton (Middlesex cricketer), English cricketer (d. 1825)
- January 2 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
- January 5 - Robert Hart, Father of the British 1820 settlers to South Africa (d. 1867)
- January 7 - Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (d. 1850)
- 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 (physician), 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 Fouque, French poet (d. 1843)
- February 12 - 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)
- March 3 - Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (d. 1857)
- March 10 - Robert Allison (Pennsylvania), U.S. Representative (d. 1840)
- March 13 - Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864)
- March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1864)
- March 17 - Patrick Brontë, Irish Anglican curate and writer; father of writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (d. 1861)
- March 19 - José María Bustamante, Mexican composer (d. 1861)
- April 11 - William Addams, United States Congressman (d. 1858)
- April 12 - Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852)
- April 16 - John Alexander (Ohio), U.S. Representative (d. 1848)
- April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
- May 4 - Richard Bourke, Australian governor (d. 1855)
- May 11 - Samuel Bridger, English cricketer
- May 18 - John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (d. 1852)
- 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, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1838)
- June 22 - William Brown (admiral), Irish-born first admiral of Argentina (d. 1857)
- June 23 - Frederick Bates, American politician (b. 1825)
- July - Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (d. 1854)
- July 26 - Robert Hamilton Bishop, Scottish-American educator and minister (d. 1855)
- July 27 - Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer (d. 1834)
- July 27 - Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844)
- July 27 - Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (d. 1853)
- July 31 - Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
- August 11 - Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter (d. 1815)
- August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)
- August 23 - Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, French princess (d. 1847)
- August 29 - Nikita Bichurin, Russian monk (d. 1853)
- August 31 - Alexander Bashilov, Russian general (d. 1847)
- September 9 - James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (d. 1818)
- September 12 - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, French zoologist and anatomist (d. 1850)
- September 25 - Joseph Badeaux, Canadian politician (d. 1835)
- October 1? - Zaro Aga (d. 1933?)
- October 16 - Lorenzo Dow, American Methodist preacher (d. 1834)
- October 16 Levi Barber, surveyor, court administrator, banker and legislator (d. 1833)
- October 18 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
- October 18 - Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, French general (d. 1809)
- November 7 - Richard Bassett (clergyman), Welsh cleric (d. 1852)
- November 14 - Nathaniel Claiborne, U.S. politician (d. 1859)
- November 24 - Samuel Butts, militia officer (d. 1814)
- December 1 - Thomas Bradford (British Army officer), British Army officer (d. 1853)
- December 4 - Madame Récamier, French writer (d. 1849)
- December 14 - Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator (d. 1839)
- December 15 - Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator and engraver (d. 1857)
- December 21 - John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer and Whig politician (d. 1847)
- December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
- December 24 - Barbara Ann Spooner Wilberforce, Wife of English Abolitionist William Wilberforce (d. 1847)
- Suleiman al-Halabi, Syrian student and assassin (d. 1800)
- Carlos Anaya, Uruguayan politician (d. 1862)
- Charles James Apperley, English sportsman and sporting writer (d. 1843)
- Carlo Armellini, Italian politican, activist and jurist (d. 1863)
- Mevlana Halid-i Bagdadi, Ottoman mystic (d. 1826)
- Connell James Baldwin, Irish soldier and civil servant (d. 1861)
- Karl Friedrich Becker, German educator and 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. 1883)
- 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)
- William Conner, American trader and politician (d. 1855)
- Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (d. 1833)
- Thomas Day (Connecticut), American judge (d. 1855)
- Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (d. 1849)
- See also Category: 1777 births.
- 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
- November 13 - William Bowyer (printer), English printer (b. 1699)
- December - Dolly Pentreath, claimed to be the last speaker of the Cornish language
- See also Category: 1777 deaths.
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