In history, year 1775 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1775.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 23 march | American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his 'Give me liberty, or give me death!' speech to the House of Burgesses of Virginia, urging military action against the British Empire. |
| 18 april | American Revolutionary War-Colonists Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott began a 'midnight ride' from Boston to Lexington to warn residents about the impending arrival of British troops. |
| 19 april | The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts. |
| 10 may | American Revolutionary War-Delegates from the ThirteenColonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to convene the SecondContinental Congress, which would serve as the de facto nationalgovernment of the future United States. |
| 11 june | The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of theAmerican Revolutionary War, took place in and around the port of Machiasin what is now eastern Maine. |
| 14 june | The United States Army was founded as the Continental Army byan act of the Continental Congress. |
| 17 june | American Revolutionary War-British forces took Bunker Hilloutside of Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 11 september | American Revolutionary War-Benedict Arnold's expeditiondeparted from Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the invasion ofQuebec. |
| 25 september | Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militiafailed in their attempt to capture Montreal from British forces. |
| 07 november | Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of the British Colony ofVirginia, signed a proclamation promising freedom for slaves of Patriotsif they joined the British Armed Forces. |
| 10 november | The United States Marine Corps was founded as the ContinentalMarines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during theAmerican Revolutionary War. |
| 05 december | American Revolutionary War-Continental Army Colonel Henry Knoxarrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of60 tons of artillery that would be used to strengthen the Siege ofBoston. |
| 09 december | American Revolutionary War-After their loss in the Battle ofGreat Bridge, British authorities were forced to evacuate from theColony of Virginia. |
| 31 december | American Revolutionary War-At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City And enlist French Canadian support. |
| 14 June | The US Army was established. |
| 22 July | George Washington commanded the US Army. George Washington was the first President of the United States. |
| 26 October | Bahadurshah Zafar, the last emperor of the Mughals was born in India. |
| 29 November | Sir James J invented invisible ink. |
| 22 January | French physicist and mathematician André Ampere was born. He created an electronic telegraph and detected the intensity of electric motion and made an instrument to measure it. |
| 09 February | Britain declared its American colony of Massachusetts as a rebel. |
| 19 April | Beginning of the American Revolution. |
| 11 January | Francis Salvador became the first Julie elected to office in the US. |
| 09 February | The British Parliament declared the Massachusetts Colony as a rebel. |
| 19 March | Poland and Prussia signed trade agreements. |
| 14 April | The first genealogical organization was held in Philadelphia, USA. |
| 07 May | The Turkish state of Bukovina was separated from Austria. |
| 17 June | In the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Britis army defeated the Continental Army of Nena America but suffered heavy losses. The Continental Army quickly reorganized itself and the struggle for internal independence continued. |
| 17 July | First military hospital approval received. |
| 22 August | King George III declared colonies to join the open rebellion. |
| 25 September | Captured American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 05 September | Juan Martín Díez / General / Spain |
| 06 August | Daniel O'Connell / Politician / Ireland |
| 09 July | Matthew Lewis / Author / United Kingdom |
| 10 May | Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle / General / France |
| 10 February | Charles Lamb / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 12 June | Karl Freiherr von Müffling / Field Marshal / Prussia |
| 13 June | Antoni Radziwiłł / Politician / Lithuania |
| 14 December | Thomas Cochrane / Politician / Scotland |
| 14 December | Philander Chase / Educator / United States of America |
| 16 December | Jane Austen / Novelist / United Kingdom |
| 16 December | François-Adrien Boieldieu / Painist / France |
| 20 January | André-Marie Ampère / Mathematician / France |
| 21 October | Giuseppe Baini / Composer / Italy |
| 21 May | Lucien Bonaparte / Politician / France |
| 21 April | Alexander Anderson / Illustrator / United States of America |
| 26 August | William Joseph Behr / Academic / Germany |
| 27 January | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling / Philosopher / Germany |
| 28 December | Jean-Gabriel Eynard / Banker / Switzerland |
| 30 January | Walter Savage Landor / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 31 August | Agnes Bulmer / Poet / United Kingdom |