1775 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1775?
- February 9, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
- March 23, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.
- April 14, 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
- April 18, 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- April 19, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- May 10, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
- June 15, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 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 23, 1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
- September 25, 1775 – Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
- 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 26, 1775 – King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
- November 7, 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
- November 10, 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
- November 13, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton.
- 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 5, 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- December 9, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
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