2nd » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
10th » American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
27th » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe called William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1776
9th » Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist and chemist (d. 1856)
25th » Thomas Bladen Capel, English admiral (d. 1853)