1776 AD:
(Note:The POD would come only in 1781)
.*Thomas Paine publish a pamphlet known as Common Sense.
*South Carolina Loyalists led by Robert Cunningham sign a petition from prison agreeing to all demands for peace by the formed state government of South Carolina.
*Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
*Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
*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.The battle is known as the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge.
*The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.This event cause the british to evacuate boston.
*Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations.
*Juan Baptista De Anza founds ther Presidio of San Francisco.
*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.
*Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
*Richard Henry Lee propose the Lee resolution.
*American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
*The Continental Congress appoints a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence.
*Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason adopted by the Virginia Convention of Delegates.
*Delaware Separation Day: The Delaware General Assembly votes to suspend government under the British Crown.
*Lt. Jose Joaquin Moraga leads a band of colonists from Monterey Presidio, landing on June 29 and constructing the Mission Dolores of the new Presidio of San Francisco.
*The Continental Congress passes the Lee Resolution.
*United States officially declares independence from the British Empire.*The Liberty Bell rings for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
*An angry mob in New York City topples the equestrian statue of George III in Bowling Green.
*Captain James Cook sets off from Plymouth England on his third, and fatal, expedition to the Pacific Ocean.
*Mozart's celebrated Haffner Serenade is first performed in Salzburg, Austria.
*First Hessian troops land on Staten Island to join British forces.
*Famous Philosopher David Hume dies of Bowel and Liver Cancer.
*Washington's troops routed in Brooklyn by British under William Howe.
*First running of the St. Leger Stakes horse race in England.
*Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
*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.
*Abortive peace conference between British and Americans on Staten Island.
*British land on Manhattan at Kip's Bay.
*American victory at Harlem Heights.
*Nathan Hale executed in New York City for espionage.
*Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
*Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
*Battle of Valcour Island: On Lake Champlain near Valcour Island, 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 New York City.
*British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
*Hessian mercenaries under Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen capture Fort Washington from the American Continentals.
*The Phi Beta Kappa society is founded at the College of William and Mary.
*Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
*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.
*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."
*Gen. George Washington orders the first issue of The Crisis read to his troops on Christmas Eve, then at 6 p.m. all 2600 of them march to McKonkey's Ferry, cross the Delaware River and land on the Jersey bank at 3 a.m.
*Washington's troops surprise the 1500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. Johann Rall at 8 a.m. outside Trenton and score a victory, taking 948 prisoners while suffering only 5 wounded.