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United States Declaration of Independence

1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain

22 dated entries naming United States Declaration of Independence, drawn from 17 separate years between 1721 CE and 1971 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1721April 19 – Roger Sherman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1793)source
  • 1728October 7 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1784)source
  • 1729November 21 – Josiah Bartlett, second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1795)source
  • 1731April 8 – William Williams, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1811)source
  • 1733September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1798)source
  • 1776June 11 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress appoints a Committee of Five to draft a Declaration of Independence.source
  • 1776July 4 – American Revolution: United States Declaration of Independence – The Continental Congress approves the declaration by the United States of its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. The text was drafted during June by Benjamin Franklin.source
  • 17764 July – American Revolution: United States Declaration of Independence. Fife-born James Wilson and Gifford-born Rev. John Witherspoon are among the signatories.source
  • 17764 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.source
  • 1776August 2 – Delegates of most of the American colonies sign the Declaration of Independence.source
  • 1777January 21 – The Continental Congress approves a resolution "that an unauthentic copy, with names of the signers of the Declaration of independence, be sent to each of the United States.source
  • 1777May 16 – Gwinnett–McIntosh duel: Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.source
  • 1781February 28 - Richard Stockton, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1730)source
  • 1784June 26 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1728)source
  • 1785July 13 – Stephen Hopkins, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1707)source
  • 1791April 24 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of Declaration of Independence, father of President William Henry Harrison, great-grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison (born 1726)source
  • 1795May 19 – Josiah Bartlett, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1729)source
  • 1798September 21 – George Read, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (born 1733)source

19th century

  • 1817June 24 – Thomas McKean, lawyer, President of the Continental Congress, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1734)source
  • 1826July 4 – Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.source
  • 1832November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (born 1737)source

20th century

  • 1971July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.source

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