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    1777 in Great Britain

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    Events from the year 1777 in Great Britain.

    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 the British in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
    • 19 September – American Revolution: First Saratoga: Battle of Freeman's Farm – British forces under General Burgoyne win the field but with serious casualties[3]
    • 4 October – American Revolution: at the Battle of Germantown, troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.[3]
    • 7 October – American Revolution: Second Saratoga: Battle of Bemis Heights – the Americans are victorious.
    • 17 October – American Revolution: Saratoga campaign ends with Burgoyne's surrender to the Americans.[3]
    • 24 December – Kiritimati (Christmas Island) visited by James Cook.
    • Undated – William Bass establishes the Bass Brewery at Burton upon Trent.

    Publications

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    • 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

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    1. ^ "History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
    2. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
    3. ^ a b c d e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 331. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
    4. ^ Lindsay, Jean. The Trent & Mersey Canal. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 48. ISBN 0-7153-7781-7.
    5. ^ "The early history of the Institution". Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
    6. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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