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* 1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral ( d. 1860 )
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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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* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry's " Give me liberty or give me death " speech in 1775 at St. John's Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson.
On 4 February 1775 Governor Guy Carleton wrote to General Thomas Gage that he believed the Canadians to be generally happy with the Act, yet he also added:
In the winter of 1775 and 1776, the Rhode Island Legislature put militia General William West in charge of rooting out loyalists in Newport, and several notable individuals such as Joseph Wanton and Thomas Vernon were exiled to the northern part of the state.
It may have been named after Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, who resigned his commission as general in the British army in 1775, refusing to serve in the war against the Colonies.
In 1775, determining that Boston was too dangerous, Isaiah Thomas moved his newspaper, the Massachusetts Spy, to Worcester.
* Thomas Wheeler served first as a junior officer in the militia during a successful standoff against a British naval raiding party against Stonington Borough in August 1775, then served as a company commander in the Eighth Regiment of Militia during the following year ’ s campaign in New York.
) Other notable Revolutionary War era residents included Asa Pollard ( 1735 – 1775 ), the first soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Thomas Ditson ( born 1741 ), who was tarred and feathered by the British in 1775 while on a visit to Boston.
According to Worcester, about the year 1775, town records started appearing with the town's name spelled as " Hollis " ( after Thomas Hollis ), and both names were used until about 1815, after which, only the name " Hollis " appears "... while Holles, the name of the Duke of Newcastle, has passed into merited oblivion.
Their son, the 5th Duke ( 1748-1811 ) carried out improvements at Lismore, notably the bridge across the river Blackwater in 1775 designed by Cork-born architect Thomas Ivory.
His father's elder brother, Sir Thomas Liddell, 6th Baronet ( 1775 – 1855 ), was raised to the Peerage as Baron Ravensworth in 1821.
He also improved Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine, erecting one at Chacewater mine, Wheal Busy, in Cornwall in 1775.
The collection included the Scottish style song " The Highland Laddie " which became popular and as late as 1775 was adapted by Thomas Linley the elder in The Duenna.
His opera The Maid of the Vale premiered at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 12 February 1775, and in December 1776 he was engaged by Thomas Ryder to produce Cymon in Dublin.
The three English artists credited with establishing watercolor as an independent, mature painting medium are Paul Sandby ( 1730 – 1809 ), often called " the father of the English watercolor ", Thomas Girtin ( 1775 – 1802 ), who pioneered its use for large format, romantic or picturesque landscape painting, and Joseph Mallord William Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ), who brought watercolor painting to the highest pitch of power and refinement and created with it hundreds of superb historical, topographical, architectural and mythological paintings.
Special mention is due of his editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( 1775 – 1778 ); and of Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others in the 15th century ( 1777 – 1778 ), with an appendix to prove that the poems were all the work of Chatterton.
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