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United States Declaration of Independence

1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain

18 dated entries naming United States Declaration of Independence, drawn from 15 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 (d. 1793)source
  • 1728October 7 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)source
  • 1729November 21 – Josiah Bartlett, second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)source
  • 1731April 8 – William Williams, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1811)source
  • 1733September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)source
  • 1776August 2 – Delegates of most of the American colonies sign the 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
  • 1776June 11 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress appoints a Committee of Five to draft a 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
  • 1784June 26 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)source
  • 1795May 19 – Josiah Bartlett, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)source
  • 1798September 21 – George Read, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)source

19th century

  • 1806July 11 – James Smith, Irish-born American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1719)source
  • 1811August 2 – William Williams, Connecticut politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1731)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 (b. 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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