1775 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1775?
- 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 11, 1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
- 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 20, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
- May 20, 1775 – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
- 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 15, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- June 17, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
- July 3, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- July 5, 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 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.
- 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 18, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
- November 10, 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
- December 5, 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- December 31, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
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