Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1776
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Literature
- Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, vol. 1
- May: Samuel Johnson has dinner with John Wilkes
- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations
Theatre
- David Garrick retires
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan becomes the manager of Drury Lane theater
Art
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Patrick Ferguson of Britain desings the breech-loading rifle,
an advance on muskets
Politics & Law
- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations
- March: The British leave Boston
- July 4: American Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine, The Crisis
- France and Spain expel the Jesuits
- Denmark and Russia enter into the Treaty of Copenhagen
Philosophy & Theology
Milestones
- Death of Francis Hayman, painter
Miscellaneous
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