1775 Calendar
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1775 Historical Event(s)
May 10, 1775
– American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
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 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.
July 3, 1775
– American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
August 23, 1775
– King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
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.
December 31, 1775
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
Who Were Born On 1775?
January 20, 1775
– André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
February 10, 1775
– Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
February 12, 1775
– Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States (1825–1829), widow of John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)
April 21, 1775
– Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870)
May 10, 1775
– Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (d. 1809)
August 26, 1775
– William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
September 13, 1775
– Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
October 21, 1775
– Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844)
December 14, 1775
– Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
December 16, 1775
– Jane Austen, English writer (d. 1817)