1775

Years:
1772 1773 1774 - 1775 - 1776 1777 1778
Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
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1775 was a Common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

April 14 - American Revolutionary War: Massachusetts Governor Gage is secretly ordered by the British to enforce the Coercive Acts and suppress open rebellion by an iron hand.
April 18 - American Revolutionary War: General Gage orders 700 troops to Concord to destroy the rebels' weapons depot.
April 18 - American Revolutionary War: Paul Revere makes his famous midnight ride - "Listen my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere on the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five; hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
April 19 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord begins at dawn with a volley on 70 armed Massachusetts militiamen on Lexington Green by the British advance guard, which leaves 8 dead and 10 wounded - "the shot heard around the world".

May 10 - American Revolutionary War: 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 Revolutionary War: 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 Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
June 12 - American Revolutionary War: The British forces offered a pardon to all colonists who would lay down their arms. With two exceptions Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to to be hanged
June 14 - American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.
June 15 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
June 17 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces take Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

July 3 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the 17,000-man Continental Army at Cambridge.
July 5 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress sends the Olive Branch Petition, hoping for a reconciliation.
August 23 - American Revolutionary War: Refusing to even look at the Olive Branch Petition, King George issues a Declaration of Rebellion against the American colonies.
July 6 - American Revolutionary War: 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 29 - September 12 - "Independence Hurricane" from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4170, mostly fishermen and sailors.

October 13 - American Revolutionary War: The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
November 10 - The United States Marine Corps was born in Tun Tavern, Philidelphia. American Revolutionary War: 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 10 - Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia founded. Continues today as one of three all men's colleges left in the United States.
November 13 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Montreal - Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen capture Montreal from British General Guy Carleton.
November 28 - The United States Navy is established by the Continental Congress.
December 31 - American Revolutionary War: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec.

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)
June 12 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1851)
June 13 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
July 23 - Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and private detective agency (d. 1857)
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 Boieldieu, French composer (d. 1834)
Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois (d. 1833)
Amadou Lobbo, Fulani Muslim leader in West Africa

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)
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)
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