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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington, driven from New York by the British, retreats towards Philadelphia | |
|  | Map of New York in 1765
National Archives, Kew
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| 1776 |
| | | Spanish America is now administered as four viceroyalties - New Spain, New Granada, New Peru and La Plata | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Buenos Aires rather than Asunción is chosen to be capital of the new Spanish viceroyalty of La Plata | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Scottish economist Adam Smith analyzes the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington defeats the British at Trenton at a psychologically important moment in the course of the war | |
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| 1774 April |
| | | A tontine is launched in Richmond to raise money for the construction of a bridge across the Thames | |
|  | Richmond Bridge, c.1850
Guildhall Library
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| 1777 |
| | | Congress adopts a new flag for independent America – the stars and stripes | |
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| 1777 |
| | | George Washington, heavily defeated in a battle at Brandywine, is forced to relinquish Philadelphia to the British | |
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| 1777 |
| | | Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre | |
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| 1777 |
| | | The American general Horatio Gates captures the army of General Burgoyne near Saratoga | |
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