Political Events
National founding milestones in Revolutionary America alongside the dynastic diplomacy and balance-of-power struggles of Europe's great courts in 1777.
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Bavarian Succession Crisis and Treaty of Teschen (1777–1779)
On December 30, 1777, Elector Maximilian Joseph III of Bavaria died without a direct heir, igniti...
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were the first formal governing compact of the thirteen United Stat...
Vermont Constitution (1777)
On July 8, 1777, a convention of seventy-two delegates meeting at Windsor, Vermont, in a building...
Flag Resolution — Stars and Stripes (1777)
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress, then meeting in Philadelphia, passed the Flag ...
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Petition of 1777
On January 13, 1777, eight free and enslaved African Americans submitted a petition to the Massac...
Shahin Giray becomes Crimean Khan
Şahin Giray (also transliterated Shahbaz Giray, Shahin Giray; 1745–1787) ascended to the khanate ...
Catherine the Great's 1777 Diplomacy and Expansion Plans
Catherine the Great's 1777 diplomacy epitomized the intersection of European power politics and t...