1777 in Great Britain

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1777 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1777 English cricket season

Events from the year 1777 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Frederick North, Lord North, Tory

[edit] Events

• 3 January - American Revolution: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.^[1]
• 18 May - First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal in London.^[2]
• 16 August - American Revolution: At the Battle of Bennington British forces are defeated by American troops.^[2]
• 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.

[edit] Publications

• The 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.

[edit] Births

• 3 February - John Cheyne, physician (died 1836)
• 1 April - William Gell, archaeologist (died 1836)
• 24 June - John Ross, Arctic explorer (died 1856)
• 9 July - Henry Hallam, historian (died 1859)
• Benjamin d'Urban, general and colonial administrator (died 1849)

[edit] Deaths

• 11 May - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, governor of Madras (born 1719)
• 21 October - Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor (born 1720)
• December - Dolly Pentreath, claimed to be the last speaker of the Cornish language.

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