What Happened in August 1776

Historical Events

Aug 2 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

Aug 10 American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

Aug 4 Wenzel Sedlak, Bohemian clarinetist and composer, born in Jezbořice, Bohemia (d. 1851)

Aug 9 Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23), born in Torino, Italy

Aug 15 Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1812)
Aug 15 Ignaz von Seyfried, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1841)
Aug 16 Philipp Jakob Riotte, German composer, born in St. Wendel, Saarland (d. 1856)

Aug 2 Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French nobleman and military leader, dies at 58

Aug 25 Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65