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1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic

The 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic was a continent-wide outbreak coinciding with the Revolutionary War that killed more than 130,000 people across Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

1776

1776: the year the thirteen colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence (July 4), fought Trenton and Princeton, saw Paine's Common Sense and Smith's Wealth of Nations, and became the contested founding symbol of the 2026 Semiquincentennial.

1776 (film)

1776 (film): 1972 Columbia Pictures movie adaptation of the 1969 Broadway musical by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone, directed by Peter H. Hunt, starring William Daniels as John Adams; cut under Nixon pressure, later restored on laserdisc and Blu-ray.

1776 (musical)

1776 is a 1969 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, dramatizing the Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence. It won five Tonys including Best Musical, ran over 1,200 performances, and was filmed in 1972.

1776 Commission

The 1776 Commission (President's Advisory 1776 Commission) was a Trump administration advisory body, created by executive order in November 2020 to promote patriotic education and counter the 1619 Project; its January 2021 report was condemned by historians and Biden disbanded it in 2021.

1776 in the United States

1776 in the United States: the year the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence (July 4, voted July 2), formed republican state governments, rejected monarchism, and fought a losing campaign ended by the Trenton victory.

1777

Year 1777, a common year pivotal in the American Revolutionary War: Princeton (Jan 3), Saratoga surrender (Oct 17), Philadelphia occupied, Valley Forge, Articles of Confederation; also Treaty of San Ildefonso and Chesme Church.

17776

17776, also called What Football Will Look Like in the Future, is Jon Bois's 2017 multimedia speculative fiction serial on SB Nation: sentient space probes Pioneer 9, Pioneer 10, and JUICE observe immortal humanity playing millennia-long football games.

1778 Kashan earthquake

The 1778 Kashan earthquake was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake on the Kashan fault that largely destroyed Kashan in central Iran in December 1778, killing more than 8,000 people, with the city rebuilt by 1783.

1779 Tabriz earthquake

The 1779 Tabriz earthquake was a destructive shock that struck Tabriz in northwestern Iran on 27 December 1779, leveling much of the city and killing a large, uncertain number of inhabitants.

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178 Belisana

178 Belisana, main-belt asteroid discovered by Johann Palisa on 6 November 1877 at Pula, named for the Celtic goddess Belisama; about 36 km across, S-type, 12.3-hour rotation.

1780 Jamaica earthquake

The 1780 Jamaica earthquake refers to earthquake shocks reported at Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica, on October 3, 1780, during the hurricane that destroyed that port town, killing about 300 people.

1780 Tabriz earthquake

The 1780 Tabriz earthquake struck Tabriz in northwestern Iran on 7 January 1780, reducing nearly all of the city's buildings to rubble and killing about 50,000 people; it was the city's largest recorded earthquake.

1782 Tainan earthquake

The 1782 Tainan earthquake is a putative earthquake and tsunami reported to have struck southwestern Taiwan on 22 May 1782, with a reported death toll of more than 40,000 people.

1783 Calabrian earthquakes

The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were five strong shocks between February and March 1783 that devastated Calabria and northeastern Sicily, killing an estimated 35,000 people.

1783 eruption of Asamayama

The 1783 eruption of Asamayama, also called the Tenmei eruption, was a Plinian eruption of Asama volcano in Japan that killed more than 1,400 people.

1783 Messina Straits earthquake

The 1783 Messina Straits earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 shock of 5 February 1783 that devastated Calabria and Sicily, first of five earthquakes that killed more than 30,000 people.

1783 Tyrrhenian Calabria earthquake

The 1783 Tyrrhenian Calabria earthquake was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck southern Calabria, Italy, on 5 February 1783, killing about 30,000 people and beginning one of Italy's longest seismic sequences.

1784 Arequipa earthquake

The 1784 Arequipa earthquake was a large earthquake that struck southern Peru on 13 May 1784, ruining Arequipa and causing severe damage in Camaná, Moquegua, and Tambo.

1784 eruption of Grimsvotn

The 1784 eruption of Grímsvötn refers to two eruption episodes in 1784 at Iceland's most active subglacial volcano, part of the two-year Laki–Grímsvötn episode of 1783–1785.

1784 Erzurum earthquake

The 1784 Erzurum earthquake was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck Erzincan and eastern Anatolia on 18 July 1784, destroying about 95% of Erzincan's buildings and killing thousands.

1786 S Of Kangding earthquake

The 1786 S of Kangding earthquake was a magnitude 7.75 earthquake that struck the Kangding–Luding area of Sichuan, China, on June 1, 1786, damming the Dadu River.

1787 Edo rice riots

The 1787 Edo rice riots, known in Japanese as the Tenmei uchikowashi, were food riots in which Edo townspeople destroyed over 900 shops amid the Tenmei famine.

1787 Oaxaca earthquake

The 1787 Oaxaca earthquake, known as the San Sixto earthquake, was a magnitude 8.4 to 8.6 megathrust quake off Mexico on 28 March 1787, the largest in Mexico's history.

1788 Saint Lucia earthquake

The 1788 Saint Lucia earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia in 1788, with a recorded death estimate of 900 people.

1788–89 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1788–89 United States House of Representatives elections, the first federal congressional elections under the Constitution, filled 65 seats for the 1st Congress under the September 13, 1788 Election Ordinance, concluding with Rhode Island's elections on August 31, 1790.