WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1776
Find out what all happened February to November 1776

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

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

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

Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. (28. March 1776)

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

American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. (17. March 1776)

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

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

American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston. (4. March 1776)

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

The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day. (28. June 1776)

American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau. (3. March 1776)

British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War. (11. September 1776)

Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. (21. September 1776)

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

American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats. (2. March 1776)

The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place. (2. August 1776)

Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania. (15. 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)

American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. (16. November 1776)