1776

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1776 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1776
MDCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita 2529
Armenian calendar 1225
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԵ
Assyrian calendar 6526
Bengali calendar 1183
Berber calendar 2726
British Regnal year 16 Geo. 3 – 17 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2320
Burmese calendar 1138
Byzantine calendar 7284–7285
Chinese calendar 乙未(Wood Goat)
4472 or 4412
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4473 or 4413
Coptic calendar 1492–1493
Discordian calendar 2942
Ethiopian calendar 1768–1769
Hebrew calendar 5536–5537
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1832–1833
 - Shaka Samvat 1698–1699
 - Kali Yuga 4877–4878
Holocene calendar 11776
Igbo calendar 776–777
Iranian calendar 1154–1155
Islamic calendar 1189–1190
Japanese calendar An'ei 5
(安永5年)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4109
Minguo calendar 136 before ROC
民前136年
Thai solar calendar 2318–2319


1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (dominical letter GF) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) of the Julian calendar, the 1776th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 776th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1770s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1776 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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