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US Declaration of Independence

Signed

1776

Younger than Harvard, the Bank of England and the piano.

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Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.

Wikidata P577: 1776Q127912, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19

“leksikon Hopp til hovedinnholdet Store norske leksikon Logg inn Undertegnelsen av den amerikanske uavhengighetserklæringen i 1776 . Av John Trumbull . Falt i det fri (Public domain) den amerikanske”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19

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