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• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Full date unknown
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1777 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

Events

• July 4 – Near Fort Ticonderoga, General Burgoyne offers condonement if colonists lay down their arms.
• September 19 – General Burgoyne's Indian and French allies desert at the battle of Stillwater.
• October 16 – Articles of Capitulation of 5,782 British, under Burgoyne are written.
• October 17 – Though aware of approaching relief, Burgoyne, having promised to capitulate, and fearing annihilation by a threatened attack, signs the capitulation. During its first session the Canadian Council passes sixteen ordinances, adopts English Commercial law, and constitutes itself a Court of Appeal, with final resort to the Privy Council in England.

Births

• June 20 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)

Deaths

References