"Common Sense and The Crisis", a pro-independence…
April 1776 CE
"Common Sense and The Crisis", a pro-independence monograph pamphlet published anonymously on January 10, 1776, by Thomas Paine, a recent English immigrant, quickly spreads among the literate, and, in three months, one hundred thousand copies have sold throughout the American British colonies (with only two million free inhabitants), making it a best-selling work in eighteenth-century America.
Paine's original title for the pamphlet had been Plain Truth; Paine's friend, pro-independence advocate Benjamin Rush, had suggested Common Sense instead.