Notable Historical Events - 1775
1775 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 11 |
Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) |
Jan 17 |
9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol |
Jan 17 |
R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London |
Jan 22 |
Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland |
Jan 25 |
Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) |
Feb 8 |
Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner |
Feb 9 |
English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion |
Feb 15 |
Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI |
Feb 22 |
1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents |
Feb 22 |
Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland |
Mar 6 |
1st Negro Mason in north America initiated, Boston |
Mar 19 |
4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy) |
Mar 19 |
Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement |
Mar 22 |
Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the Westminster Parliament |
Mar 23 |
Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war |
Apr 11 |
The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place. |
Apr 14 |
1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila |
Apr 18 |
Paul Revere & William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the "regulars are coming!" |
Apr 19 |
Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon |
Apr 19 |
American Revolution begins - Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world" |
Apr 20 |
British begin siege of Boston |
Apr 23 |
Opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg) |
May 7 |
Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria |
May 10 |
2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time |
May 10 |
2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander |
May 10 |
Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution |
May 17 |
American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. |
May 20 |
Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence from Britain |
May 24 |
John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress |
Jun 12 |
1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br) |
Jun 14 |
US Army founded |
Jun 15 |
George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army |
Jun 17 |
Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill) |
Jun 22 |
1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000) |
Jun 23 |
1st regatta held on Thames, England |
Jul 3 |
Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass |
Jul 5 |
US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. |
Jul 6 |
Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent |
Jul 10 |
Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army |
Jul 17 |
1st military hospital approved |
Jul 22 |
George Washington takes command of US troops |
Jul 25 |
Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta |
Jul 26 |
United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin |
Jul 30 |
Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England |
Aug 5 |
1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay |
Aug 22 |
King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion |
Sep 13 |
Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main |
Sep 25 |
American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured |
Oct 8 |
Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army |
Oct 12 |
US Navy forms |
Oct 13 |
Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet |
Oct 16 |
Portland, Maine burned by British |
Oct 18 |
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. |
Oct 23 |
Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army |
Oct 27 |
US Navy forms |
Nov 7 |
Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army |
Nov 10 |
Congress forms US Marine Corps |
Nov 11 |
Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war |
Nov 12 |
General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks |
Nov 13 |
American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal |
Nov 14 |
-15] Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces |
Nov 28 |
2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy |
Nov 29 |
Sir James Jay invents invisible ink |
Dec 3 |
1st official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred |
Dec 5 |
At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
Dec 22 |
Continental navy organized with 7 ships |
Dec 25 |
Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate |
Dec 31 |
Battle of Quebec in American Revolutionary War; Americans defeated trying to take British stronghold |
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