Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1777

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Literature

Samuel Johnson begins writing The Lives of the Poets and corresponds with Dodd

Theatre

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, opens at Drury Lane

Art

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Charles Augustin de Coulomb invents the torsion balance
David Bushnell of America invents the torpedo
Lavoisier demonstrates that air is made up mostly of oxygen and nitrogen

Politics & Law

Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga

Philosophy & Theology

Milestones

Miscellaneous

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