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2. 1776 in the United States - Wikipedia

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   July 8–10 – American Revolution: Battle of Gwynn's Island. July 8 – American Revolution: The Liberty Bell rings for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. July 9 – American Revolution: An angry mob in New York City topples the equestrian statue of George III in ...

3. 1776 in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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   American Revolution: Battle of Trois-Rivières: American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Lee's Legion is raised at Williamsburg, Virginia. June 11 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress appoints the Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence. The principal draft will be written by Thomas Jefferson.

4. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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   The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.

5. Timeline of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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   The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...

6. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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   Battle of Cartagena de Indias, where the colonists are called "Americans" for the first time. James Oglethorpe fails to take St. Augustine. South Carolina enacts the Negro Act of 1740. 1741 – The New York Conspiracy of 1741 is suppressed. Jonathan Edwards preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a key moment of the First Great Awakening.

7. Halifax Resolves - Wikipedia

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   The Halifax Resolves was a name later given to the resolution adopted by the North Carolina Provincial Congress on April 12, 1776. The adoption of the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution .

8. Outline of the history of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...

9. 1776 - Wikipedia

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   John Collins, American manufacturer, politician (d. 1822) Elias Moore (d. 1847) March 3 – James Parker, American politician (d. 1868) March 4 – Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest, Russian army commander (d. 1814) March 5 – Gerard Troost, American mineralogist (d. 1850) March 6 – Luigi Lambruschini, Italian Catholic ...