“British officials in North America sent copies of the Declaration to Great Britain. It was published in British newspapers beginning in mid-August, it had reached Florence and Warsaw by mid-September, and a German translation appeared in Switzerland by October. The first copy of the Declaration sent to France got lost, and the second copy arrived only in November 1776.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Publication_and_reaction
For the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi