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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 a military...
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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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    States of America. The Congress began convening in Philadelphia, on May 10, 1775, with representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies, after the Battles of Lexington...
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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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    William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became...
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    Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet 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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  • 1770s BC (redirect from 1775 BC)
    goddess Ishtar, is made at the Royal Palace of Mari, Court 106, from around 1775 BC to 1760 BC. It is now at the Louvre, Paris. Babylon becomes the largest...
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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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  • 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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  • Princess Hejing of the First Rank (固倫和靜公主; 10 August 1756 – 9 February 1775), was a princess of the Qing dynasty as the seventh daughter of the Qianlong...
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  • Tambor - Governor Massengill Christopher Meeks (9 September 1992). "Review: '1775'". Variety. Retrieved 18 February 2014. Vincent Terrace. Encyclopedia of...
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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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    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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    Robert Bolling (August 17, 1738 – July 21, 1775) was an American planter, poet and politician. The great-grandson of Robert Bolling, he was born in Virginia...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Fashion in the years 1750–1775 in European countries and the colonial Americas was characterised by greater abundance, elaboration and intricacy in clothing...
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    and defense. In 1775, the King declared the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be in a state of open defiance and rebellion. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental...
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    the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War...
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  • became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Whittemore was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1696, the second...
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    Continental Army (category 1775 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies)
    States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775 by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia...
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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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  • schooner named Endeavor acquired by General George Washington in early October 1775 from George Erving and Capt. Benjamin Wormwell of Plymouth, Massachusetts...
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    The Ottoman–Persian War of 1775–1776 (or Ottoman–Iranian War of 1775–1776) was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Zand dynasty of Persia. The Persians...
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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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    submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships...
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    British Library, Harley MS 1775 is an illuminated Gospel Book produced in Italy during the last quarter of the 6th century. The text is in Latin and is...
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