There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1776 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 1868 BC, 1862 BC, 1851 BC, 1840 BC, 1834 BC, 1823 BC, 1812 BC, 1806 BC, 1801 BC, 1795 BC, 1784 BC in the century before it and 1767 BC, 1756 BC, 1750 BC, 1739 BC, 1728 BC, 1722 BC, 1711 BC, 1700 BC, 1694 BC, 1683 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.