1775 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1775?
- April 11, 1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
- April 18, 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- April 20, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
- May 10, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
- May 17, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
- May 31, 1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
- June 11, 1775 – The American Revolutionary War’s first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
- June 12, 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
- July 3, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- July 8, 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
- July 26, 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
- August 20, 1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
- September 11, 1775 – Benedict Arnold’s expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- September 17, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
- October 13, 1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
- October 18, 1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
- October 28, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
- December 2, 1775 – The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
- December 9, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
- December 31, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
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