Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
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Canada – Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland – Sweden – United States | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1776 MDCCLXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2529 |
Armenian calendar | 1225 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6526 |
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 |
1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (dominical letter GF) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) 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. The year is dominated by events of the American Revolutionary War.