WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1776
Find out what all happened January to October 1776

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. (8. June 1776)

American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army. (10. September 1776)

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia. (27. February 1776)

Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. (26. October 1776)

Captain James Cook begins his third voyage. (12. July 1776)

Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California. (29. June 1776)

Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition. (28. June 1776)

Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt. (1. May 1776)

American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought. (16. September 1776)

The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain. (17. September 1776)

Richard Henry Lee presented the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence. (7. June 1776)

The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence. (11. June 1776)

First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey (29. June 1776)

According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). (7. September 1776)

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. (7. April 1776)

The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States. (9. September 1776)

Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg. (7. October 1776)

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution. (22. September 1776)

American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat. (6. April 1776)

The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted. (12. June 1776)