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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American Revolutionary War (redirect from Revolutionary war 1775)
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed...
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Jane Austen (redirect from Austen, Jane, 1775-1817)
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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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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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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William Booth (redirect from Samuel Booth (1775–1842))
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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Second Continental Congress (redirect from Continental Congress in 1775)
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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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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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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Princess Hejing (born 1756) (redirect from Gurun Princess Hejing (1756–1775))
Princess Hejing of the First Rank (固倫和靜公主; 10 August 1756 – 9 February 1775), was a royal of the Qing dynasty. Princess Hejin was the Qianlong Emperor's...
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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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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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James Watt (redirect from James Watt's Fire Engines Patent Act 1775)
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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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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American Revolution (redirect from Revolution of 1775)
of committees. In April 1775 British forces attempted to disarm local militias around Boston and engaged them. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental...
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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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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1775. January 17 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, the comedy of manners...
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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 Restraining Acts of early 1775 were two Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, which limited colonial trade in response to both increasing...
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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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The 1775 Newfoundland hurricane, also known as the Independence Hurricane, was a hurricane that struck the Thirteen Colonies and the Colony of Newfoundland...
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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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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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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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Robert Bolling (poet) (redirect from ROBERT BOLLING (1738–1775))
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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USS Alfred (redirect from USS Alfred (1775))
Duke of Cornwall and launched in 1774. The Continental Navy acquired her in 1775, renaming her Alfred after 9th century English monarch Alfred of Wessex,...
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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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Adam Hay (Peeblesshire MP) (redirect from Adam Hay (d.1775))
– 15 November 1775) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1767 and 1775. He was the second...
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