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1777 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1777
in
Great Britain
.
1777 in Great Britain:
Other years
1775
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1776
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1777
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1778
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1779
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1777 English cricket season
Incumbents
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Monarch
–
George III
Prime Minister
–
Frederick North, Lord North
(
Tory
)
[1]
Events
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3 January –
American Revolution
:
American
general
George Washington
defeats British general
Charles Cornwallis
at the
Battle of Princeton
.
[2]
1 May – legal case of
Goodright v. Stevens
decides that the declaration of either parent cannot be accepted to prove that a child born in wedlock is a
bastard
.
8 May – first performance of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's
comedy of manners
The School for Scandal
at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
in
London
.
[3]
May – completion of the
Trent and Mersey Canal
.
[4]
21 July –
Holmfirth Flood
in the
Holme Valley
of
West Yorkshire
: three drowned.
16 August – American Revolution: at the
Battle of Bennington
British and
Brunswicker
forces are decisively defeated by American troops.
[3]
8 September – inauguration of
Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
.
[5]
11 September – American Revolution:
Battle of Brandywine
is a major victory for British in
Chester County
,
Pennsylvania
.
19 September – American Revolution: first
Battle of Saratoga
[3]
/
Battle of Freeman's Farm
/
Battle of Bemis Heights
.
4 October – American Revolution: at the
Battle of Germantown
, troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir
William Howe
.
[3]
17 October – American Revolution: American victory at the Battle of Saratoga.
[3]
24 December –
Kiritimati
discovered by
James Cook
.
Undated
edit
William Bass
establishes the
Bass Brewery
at
Burton upon Trent
.
Publications
edit
Encyclopædia Britannica
Second Edition
begins publication.
Laws Respecting Women, as they Regard Their Natural Rights
is published by
Joseph Johnson
.
John Howard
's study
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
.
Clara Reeve
’s
Gothic novel
The Champion of Virtue
(anonymously), later known as
The Old English Baron
.
[6]
Births
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22 January –
Joseph Hume
, doctor and politician (died 1855)
3 February –
John Cheyne
, physician (died 1836)
16 February –
Benjamin D'Urban
, general and colonial administrator (died 1849)
1 April –
William Gell
, archaeologist (died 1836)
24 June –
John Ross
, Arctic explorer (died 1856)
9 July –
Henry Hallam
, historian (died 1859)
3 November –
Princess Sophia
, fifth daughter of
King George III
(died
1848
)
Deaths
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12 January –
Hugh Mercer
, soldier and physician, dies in
Princeton, New Jersey
,
United States
(born 1726)
11 May –
George Pigot, Baron Pigot
, governor of Madras (born 1719)
19 or 27 May –
Button Gwinnett
, 2nd
Governor of Georgia
, dies near
Savannah, Georgia
, United States (born 1735)
27 July –
William Hayes
, composer (bapt.
1708
)
7 October –
Simon Fraser
, general (born
1729
)
21 October –
Samuel Foote
, dramatist and actor (born 1720)
26 December –
Dolly Pentreath
, last-known fluent native
speaker of the Cornish language
(born 1692)
See also
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1777 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
1 July
2023
.
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
a
b
c
d
e
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 331.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
Lindsay, Jean.
The Trent & Mersey Canal
. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 48.
ISBN
0-7153-7781-7
.
^
"The early history of the Institution". Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17
. Retrieved
2010-10-18
.
^
Leavis, Q. D.
(1965).
Fiction and the Reading Public
(rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
Further reading
edit
Annual Register...1777
, London:
J. Dodsley
, 1785