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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag, the British red ensign on a ground of thirteen stripes – one for each colony | |
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| 1776 |
| | | In Common Sense, an anonymous pamphlet, English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Walpole adds the Beauclerk Tower and hexagonal closet to Strawberry Hill. | |
|  | Strawberry Hill
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| 1776 |
| | | Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington drives the British garrison from Boston, and moves south to protect New York | |
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| 1776 |
| | | The revolutionary convention of Virginia votes for independence from Britain, and instructs its delegates in Philadelphia to propose this motion | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Virginia's motion for independence from Britain is passed at the Continental Congress of the colonies with no opposing vote | |
|  | Liberty Bell, Philadelphia
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| 1776 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson's text for the Declaration of Independence is accepted by the Congress in Philadelphia | |
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| 1776 |
| | | English historian Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| 1776 |
| | | John Hancock is the first delegate to sign the Declaration of Independence, formally written out on a large sheet of parchment | |
|  | The American Declaration of Independence in 1776
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