US Declaration of Independence

Name: US Declaration of Independence
Start: 1776
Location: Philadelphia

1776 · Philadelphia · Americas · Politics

Thirteen colonies declare freedom and the rights of man

US Declaration of Independence — original: w:Second Continental Congress ; reproduction: William Stone · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration drafted by Thomas Jefferson, proclaiming the thirteen colonies independent of Britain. Its words on equality and unalienable rights inspired revolutions around the world.

State: United States of America

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Did you know

In January 1775 Pugachev was executed in Moscow; in April the first shots of the American War of Independence were fired.

The Bolshoi Theatre and the United States are the same age: the theatre dates from March 1776, the Declaration of Independence from July of that year.

Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Europe

1755 Lisbon earthquake — 21 years earlier
c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — 16 years earlier
1769 Watt's steam engine — 7 years earlier
1789 Storming of the Bastille — 13 years later
1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 20 years later

Eastern Europe & Russia

1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — 14 years earlier
1764 Founding of the Hermitage — 12 years earlier
c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — 8 years earlier
1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — 4 years earlier
1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 7 years later

Africa

1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 22 years later

Asia

1757 Battle of Plassey — 19 years earlier

Oceania

1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — 8 years earlier
1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 12 years later