1777 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1777 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George III
- Prime Minister - Lord North, Tory
Events
- 3 January - American Revolution: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.[1]
- 8 May - First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.[2]
- May - Completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal.[3]
- 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.[2]
- 8 September - Inauguration of Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.[4]
- 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[2]/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.[2]
- 17 October - American Revolution: American victory at the Battle of Saratoga.[2]
- 24 December - Kiritimati discovered by James Cook.
Undated
- William Bass establishes the Bass Brewery at Burton upon Trent.
Publications
- The 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
- 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.[5]
Births
- 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)
- 20 March - John Braham, opera singer (died 1856)
- 1 April - William Gell, archaeologist (died 1836)
- 24 June - John Ross, Arctic explorer (died 1856)
- 9 July - Henry Hallam, historian (died 1859)
Deaths
- 12 January - Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician, died 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, died in near Savannah, Georgia, United States (born 1735)
- 21 October - Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor (born 1720)
- December - Dolly Pentreath, probably the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language (born c.1692)
References
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 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. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ↑ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
Further reading
- Annual Register...1777, London: J. Dodsley, 1785
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