1777 In Great Britain
Events from the year 1777 in Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain. Incumbents * List of British monarchs, Monarch – George III of the United Kingdom, George III * Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tories (British political party), Tory) Events * 3 January – American Revolution: United States, American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. * 1 May – legal case of ''Goodright v. Stevens'' decides that the declaration of either parent cannot be accepted to prove that a child born in wedlock is a Bastard (law of England and Wales), bastard. * 8 May – first performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners ''The School for Scandal'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. * May – completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal. * 21 July – Holmfirth Flood in the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire: three drowned. * 16 August – American Revolution: at the ...
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