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What Happened in August 1776

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Historical Events

United States Declaration of Independence

Aug 2 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

Engrossed copy of the United States Declaration of Independence

US Declaration Reaches London

Aug 10 News of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London during the American Revolutionary War

Founding Father and Religious Leader John Witherspoon
  • Aug 27 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
  • Aug 29 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
  • Aug 30 Continental Army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC
Events in 1776

Famous Birthdays

  • Aug 4 Wenzel Sedlak, Bohemian clarinetist and composer, born in Jezbořice, Bohemia (d. 1851)

Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)

Aug 9 Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23), born in Torino, Italy

Amedeo Avogadro
  • Aug 15 Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1812)
  • Aug 15 Ignaz von Seyfried, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1841)
  • Aug 16 Philipp Jakob Riotte, German composer, born in St. Wendel, Saarland (d. 1856)
Born in 1776

Famous Deaths

  • Aug 2 Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French nobleman and military leader, dies at 58

David Hume (1711-1776)

Aug 25 Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65

David Hume



What Happened in 1776

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