Information about 1775
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Events of 1775
January - June
- February 9 - American Revolution: British Parliament declares Massachusetts a rebellion
- February 15 - Pope Pius VI succeeds Pope Clement XIV as the 250th pope.
- March 23 - American Revolution: Patrick Henry delivers his "give me liberty or give me death" speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
- April 11 - Last execution for witchcraft in Europe, of Anna Maria Schwiigel.
- April 18 - Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Joseph Warren ride from Boston to Concord in an attempt to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that the British Armies were coming to seize their weapons and ammunition.
- April 19 - Hostility between Britain and its American colonies explode into bloodshed at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on the 19th,[1] which ignites the American Revolution.
- May 10 - American Revolution: The Continental Congress meets, elects John Hancock president, raises the Continental army under George Washington as commander and authorizes the colonies to adopt their own constitutions.
- May 10 - American Revolution: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force called the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
- May 17 - American Revolution: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
- June 12 - American Revolution: The British forces offered a pardon to all colonists who would lay down their arms.
- June 14 - American Revolution: Delegates of the Continental Congress nominate George Washington as commander of the Continental Army -- defeating John Hancock.
- June 17 - American Revolution: Two months into the colonial siege of Boston, British open fire on Breed's Hill on Charles Town peninsula. After three charges, the British take the hill in the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill.
July - December
- July 3 - American Revolution: George Washington takes command of the 17,000-man Continental Army at Cambridge.
- July 5 - American Revolution: The Continental Congress sends the Olive Branch Petition, hoping for a reconciliation.
- July 6 - American Revolution: The Continental Congress issues Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, which contains the words: "Our cause is just. Our union is perfect... being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves...".
- July 26 - The Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what would later become the United States Post Office Department.
- August 21 - American Revolution: American rebels launch invasion of Canada Battle_of_Fort_St._Jean.
- August 23 - American Revolution: Refusing to even look at the Olive Branch Petition, King George issues a Proclamation of Rebellion against the American colonies.
- August 29 - September 12 - "Independence Hurricane" from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4170, mostly fishermen and sailors.
- September 25- American Revolution: Battle of Montreal - Patriot revolutionary forces under Maj. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, commanded by British General Guy Carleton. Allen's forces are defeated, and Allen himself is captured and held on British ships until he is later released.
- October - Sayre Plot to kidnap King George III.
- October 13 - American Revolution: The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental army(later renamed the United States Navy).
- November - American Revolution: Colonel Richard Richardson's South Carolina revolutionaries march through Ninety Six District in what becomes known as the "Snow Campaign", effectively ending all major support for the Loyalist cause in the backcountry of South Carolina.
- November 10 - The United States Marine Corps is born in Philadelphia. It is common belief that the first Marines are recruited out of Tun Tavern. There is some speculation that this could have happened at a tavern near the site of Tun Tavern. American Revolution: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy (the Marines were disbanded at end of war in April of 1783 but were reformed on July 11, 1798).
- November 13 - American Revolution: Battle of Montreal - Patriot revolutionary forces under Brig. Gen. Richard Montgomery capture Montreal. British General Guy Carleton escapes to Quebec.
- December 5 - American Revolution: Henry Knox begins his journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that has been captured from Fort Ticonderoga.
- December 31 - American Revolution: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec.
Undated
- Smallpox epidemic begins in New England.
- Last official execution for witchcraft in Germany.
- French decide to ignore plans for perpetuum mobiles in the future.
- James Watt's first steam engine prototype.
- Austria forces the Ottoman Empire to cede Bukovina.
- John Wilkinson (industrialist) invented and patented a new kind of boring machine.
Births
1775 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1775
MDCCLXXVAb urbe condita 2528 Armenian calendar 1224
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԴBah' calendar -69 – -68 Buddhist calendar 2319 Chinese calendar 4411/4471-7-27
(甲午年七月廿七日)— to —4412/4472-7-7
(乙未年七月初七日)Coptic calendar 1491 – 1492 Ethiopian calendar 1767 – 1768 Hebrew calendar 5535 – 5536 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1830 – 1831 - Shaka Samvat 1697 – 1698 - Kali Yuga 4876 – 4877 Holocene calendar 11775 Iranian calendar 1153 – 1154 Islamic calendar 1189 – 1190 Japanese calendar An'ei 0
(安永0年)- Imperial Year Kōki 2435
(皇紀2435年)Julian calendar 1820 Korean calendar 4108 Thai solar calendar 2318 - January 22 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
- January 27 - Friedrich Schelling, German physicist (d. 1854)
- February 10 Charles Lamb, English writer (d. 1834)
- February 12 - Louisa Adams, First Lady, wife of President John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)
- March 17 - Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (d. 1833)
- April 30 - Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France, (d. 1851)
- May 10 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (d. 1809)
- June 12 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
- June 13 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
- July 23 - Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and private detective agency (d. 1857)
- September 1 - Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France (d. 1860)
- December 14 - Philander Chase, American university founder (d. 1852)
- December 14 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
- December 16 - Jane Austen, English novelist (d. 1817)
- December 16 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (d. 1834)
- See also .
Deaths
- January 8 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
- January 13 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
- February 5 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
- February 6 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
- February 15 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
- April 27th - Col. Thomas Gardner. A political figure and heroic soldier (b. 1724)
- June 17 - Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
- June 23 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
- July 11 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- September 16 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
- October 2 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
- October 18 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
- October 21 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
- November 21 - John Hill, English writer
- November 24 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
- December 7 - Charles Saunders, British admiral
- See also .
References
1. ^ "Battles of Lexington and Concord" (history), Britannica Student Encyclopedia, 2006, Britannica.com/ebi webpage: Brit-EBI-454: states "The American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord."
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- 1775-83: Demands by the American colonists that they be represented in the English Parliament lead to the American Revolution.
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- 17 January - First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals
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- Angola - António de Lencastre, Governor of Angola (1772-1779)
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