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 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.
- May 10, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
- May 31, 1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
- 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.
- June 15, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- July 5, 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 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 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 18, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
- 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.
- October 28, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
- 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 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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