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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1775. 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed...
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    The New World of the Western Hemisphere was devastated by the 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic. Estimates based on remnant settlements say at...
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    Jane Austen (/ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːstɪn/ OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly...
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    culminated in the American Revolutionary War, which was launched on April 19, 1775, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Leaders of the American Revolution...
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    UGC 1775 or Arp 10 is a ring galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy lies about 400 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its apparent...
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    Events from the year 1775 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton Governor of Nova Scotia: Francis Legge Commodore-Governor...
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    present day Wildwood Crest near Cape May, New Jersey. Nancy was built c. 1775 by Barney Harris in Wilmington, Delaware, and was owned by Joseph Shallcross...
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    The Second Continental Congress (1775–1781) was the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution...
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  • built at St. Johns (now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) in Quebec, Canada. In May 1775, a small American force under Colonel Benedict Arnold sailed up the Richelieu...
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  • The American Revolution: 1775–1783 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972 that is a strategic simulation of the American...
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    Oklahoma House Bill 1775 (also known as HB1775) is a passed 2021 legislative bill in the U.S. state of Oklahoma that bans teaching certain concepts around...
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  • Decree 1775 was signed into Brazilian law by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on January 8, 1996. The decree changed the steps FUNAI was required to...
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    Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille de Québec) was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec...
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    Robert Robert Livingston, also called The Judge (August 1718 – December 9, 1775), was a prominent colonial American politician, and a leading Whig in New...
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    American Revolutionary War in the Battle off Yarmouth (1777). On 13 October 1775, acting on intelligence received concerning the dispatch of supply vessels...
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    Fashion in the twenty years between 1775 and 1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern...
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    United States, between 1–20 May 1775. It was adopted on 14 June 1775 into the Main Continental Army and assigned 22 July 1775 to Spencer's Brigade. The regiment...
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    Party (1773), Paul Revere's midnight ride (1775), the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), and the Siege of Boston (1775–1776). Following American independence from...
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    financial difficulties until he entered a partnership with Matthew Boulton in 1775. The new firm of Boulton and Watt was eventually highly successful and Watt...
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    Crown. When the American Revolutionary War against the British began in 1775, Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. He...
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    Colonies during the American Revolution. It was supposedly signed on May 20, 1775, in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a committee of citizens of Mecklenburg...
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    Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the elder son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824...
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  • Events from the year 1775 in Ireland. Monarch: George III Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer. Henry...
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  • Robert Livingston (July 24, 1688 – June 27, 1775) was a British colonial era landowner, businessman, and Provincial assemblyman, and the Second Lord of...
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  • The year 1775 in science and technology involved some significant events. The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is described. May 25 – Joseph Priestley's account...
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  • Peter Burrell FRS (27 August 1724 – 6 November 1775) was a British politician and barrister. Born in London, he was the son of Peter Burrell and his wife...
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    politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the...
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  • campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga...
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    Andrew Doria was a brig purchased by the Continental Congress in November 1775. She is most famous for her participation in the Battle of Nassau—the first...
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