1776

1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1776th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 776th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1776, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1773 1774 1775 – 1776 – 1777 1778 1779

1776 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1776 MDCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2529
Armenian calendar	1225 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6526
Balinese saka calendar	1697–1698
Bengali calendar	1183
Berber calendar	2726
British Regnal year	16 Geo. 3 – 17 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2320
Burmese calendar	1138
Byzantine calendar	7284–7285
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4472 or 4412     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4473 or 4413
Coptic calendar	1492–1493
Discordian calendar	2942
Ethiopian calendar	1768–1769
Hebrew calendar	5536–5537
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1832–1833
- Shaka Samvat	1697–1698
- Kali Yuga	4876–4877
Holocene calendar	11776
Igbo calendar	776–777
Iranian calendar	1154–1155
Islamic calendar	1189–1190
Japanese calendar	An'ei 5 (安永５年)
Javanese calendar	1701–1702
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4109
Minguo calendar	136 before ROC 民前136年
Nanakshahi calendar	308
Thai solar calendar	2318–2319
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1902 or 1521 or 749     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1903 or 1522 or 750

Events

• July 4 – the United States of America say that they are no longer part of England (the Declaration of Independence)
• July 12 – Captain James Cook starts his third, and final, voyage to the Pacific Ocean
• The city of San Francisco is founded in California, USA (San Francisco was then part of Spain).
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is published. It is an important book in the history of economics.

Births

• January 24 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (died 1822)
• February 11 – Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen (died 1831)
• March 10 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (died 1810)
• April 1 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (died 1831)
• June 11 – John Constable, English painter (died 1837)
• August 9 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (died 1856)
• Muttusvami Dikshitar, Indian composer

Deaths

• August 25 – David Hume, Scotish philosopher