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* 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
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It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.
* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )
André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
* 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins ; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.
* David R. MacGregor, Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775 – 1875 Naval Institute Press, 1988 ISBN 0-87021-895-6 index
* 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* 1775 – The 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.
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He entered the Irish Parliament for Charlemont in 1775, sponsored by Lord Charlemont, just as Flood had damaged his credibility by accepting office.
He began his service in the Assembly of Delaware in the 1761 / 62 session and continued in office through the 1775 / 76 session.
In November 1775 Weymouth returned to his former office of secretary for the southern department, undertaking in addition the duties attached to the northern department for a few months in 1779, but he resigned both positions in the autumn of that year.
Root's successor as Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, returned to the traditional secretary-bureau chief alliance, subordinating the chief of staff to the adjutant general, a powerful office since its creation in 1775.
Having succeeded his father as second Earl Bathurst in September 1775, he resigned his office somewhat unwillingly in July 1778 to enable Lord Thurlow to join the cabinet of Lord North.
* January 8-William Warren Baldwin, doctor, militia officer, jp, lawyer, office holder, judge, businessman, and politician ( born 1775 )
He was made a councillor of state in 1775 by the influence of Louis de Bourbon, duke of Penthièvre, and in 1780 he was attached to the court in the honorary office of chancellor to the comte d ' Artois ( afterwards Charles X ).
On July 29, 1775, Hillegas and fellow patriot George Clymer were appointed by the Continental Congress to share the office of Treasurer of the United Colonies.
Arthur St. Clair, another Pennsylvania official, called for Crawford to be removed from his office, which was done in January 1775.
He rose in political office, serving as sheriff of Tryon County ( 1775 ), justice of the peace of Rutherford County ( 1780 – 1800 ), and comptroller of Rutherford County from ( July 1782-January 1785 ).
He resumed office at Fort St. George on 11 December 1775, and soon found himself at variance with some of his council.
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A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie 1775 – 1800, Darnton states that there is no need to further study the encyclopædia itself, as " the book has been analyzed and anthologized dozen of times: to recapitulate all the studies of its intellectual content would be redundant ".
In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.
Written in German on a drawing the king made in 1775, three years after Struensee ’ s execution, was the following: " Ich hätte gern beide gerettet " (" I would have liked to have saved them both "), referring to Struensee and Brandt.
In 1775, Benedict Arnold and his 1, 100 troops would use Fort Western as a staging area before continuing their journey up the Kennebec to the Battle of Quebec.
In 1775, Francisco Garcés would follow the same path, laying the groundwork for the founding of Tucson.
In 1775, Francisco Garcés would follow the same path, laying the groundwork for the founding of Tucson.
Explorer and naturalist William Bartram came through the Dividings in May, 1775 while exploring what would later become Rabun County.
In the early 19th century, the area that would later become Westwood was within the larger political boundaries of Harrington Township, which had been established by royal charter in 1775.
It seems that Barbauld and her husband were concerned that they would never have a child of their own and in 1775, after only a year of marriage, Barbauld suggested to her brother that they adopt one of his children:
In early 1775, when King George called on him to serve, he accepted, claiming publicly that if he did not, he would suffer " the odious name of backwardness to serve my country in distress.
In 1775, the Duke established the Cumberland Fleet, which would later become the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
In 1775, Benedict Arnold and his troops would march through Norridgewock Plantation, as it was known, on their way to the ill-fated Battle of Quebec.
Village prosperity would be expressed in fine early architecture, including the Town Meetinghouse, built in 1775.
He left the College of New Jersey in 1775 to fight in the revolution, though he would later receive an honorary degree in 1776.
The squabbles the New Englanders had with the British government would eventually lead to Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill by 1775, a century and four generations later.
Arkwright in 1775 obtained for a grand patent covering many processes that he hoped would give him monopoly power over the fast-growing industry, but Lancashire opinion was bitterly hostile to exclusive patents ; in 1781 Arkwright tried and failed to uphold his monopolistic 1775 patent.
After the war began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the British General Thomas Gage realized the fort would require fortification, and several colonists had the idea of capturing the fort.
In 1773, she wrote The Defeat, also featuring the character based on Hutchinson, and in 1775 Warren published The Group, a satire conjecturing what would happen if the British king abrogated the Massachusetts charter of rights.
That First Congress provided that the Second Continental Congress would meet on May 10, 1775, to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the Coercive Acts.
In 1775, Spanish explorer Perez Ayala was the first European to land on what would become Mare Island-he named it Isla de la Plana.
In 1759 he was elected to the colony's general assembly and would serve in that body until it was displaced in 1775 as a part of the Revolution.
Also in 1775, Howe was elected to the provincial congress, where he would be appointed colonel of the Continental Army's 2nd North Carolina Regiment on September 1 of that year.
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