Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 ( Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna )

In 1775, Mesmer was invited to give his opinion before the Munich Academy of Sciences on the exorcisms carried out by Johann Joseph Gassner.

The term was originally coined by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ) to depict early stages of monotheism, however Max Müller ( 1823 – 1900 ), a German philologist and orientalist, brought the term into common usage.

* 1775 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher ( d. 1854 )

* August 1 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third ( and last ) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( 1771 – 1772 ) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

* May 20 – Joseph Blanco White, British theologian ( b. 1775 )

* December 19 – Joseph Mallord William Turner, English artist ( b. 1775 )

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ), his student Johann Baptist von Spix ( 1781-1826 ) and several others followed the idea that was a hidden and innate mathematical order in the forms of birds.

This and the withdrawal of Joseph Banks resulted in his invitation by the British admiralty to join James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific ( 1772 – 1775 ).

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA ( 23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851 ) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist, and printmaker.

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on or around the 23 April 1775 in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, England.

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 was named for Dr. Joseph Warren, who was killed in 1775 at the Battle of Bunker Hill, in which he fought as a private because his commission as a general had not yet taken effect.

Warren County was named for Dr. Joseph Warren, killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.

In 1775, Charles Joseph Panckoucke obtained the rights to reissue the work.

* Joseph Nightingale ( 1775 – 1824 ), writer and preacher

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.

Joseph Blanco White, born José María Blanco Crespo ( 11 July 1775 in Seville, Spain – 20 May 1841 in Liverpool, England ), was a Spanish theologian and poet.

With regard to the experience of objects, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ) claimed that the Fichte's " I " needs the Not-I, because there is no subject without object, and vice versa.

He published a series of German translations of the principal English writers on aesthetics, such as Charles Burney, Joseph Priestley and Richard Hurd ; and also produced the first complete translation in German prose of Shakespeare's plays ( William Shakespear's Schauspiele, 13 vols., Zürich, 1775 – 1782 ).

* Joseph Warren ( 1741 – 1775 ), physician, Revolutionary major general

Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).

* April 23 – Joseph Antonio Emidy, violinist and composer ( b. 1775 )

So far, however, from promoting the acceptance of the psychological theory, this physical hypothesis proved to have rather the opposite effect, and it began to be dropped by Hartley's followers ( as Joseph Priestley, in his abridged edition of the Observations, 1775 ) before it was seriously impugned from without.

* 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established.

The first building society to be established was Ketley's Building Society, founded by Richard Ketley, the landlord of the Golden Cross inn, in 1775.

The first permanently settled Scottish community on Cape Breton Island was Judique, settled in 1775 by Michael Mor MacDonald.

* 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.

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

* Steam power – The improved steam engine invented by James Watt and patented in 1775 was at first mainly used to power pumps for pumping water out of mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power other types of machines.

* 1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.

In 1775, Atake Tynay Biy Uulu one of the leaders of Sarybagysh tribe established first diplomatic ties with the Russian Empire by sending his envoys to Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg.

At first called the Lunar Circle, " Lunar Society " became the formal name by 1775.

The first was probably that held on 31 December 1775, and the " Lunar " name is first recorded in 1776.

* 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.

* 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.

The first European to enter the bay is believed to have been the Spanish explorer Juan de Ayala, who passed through the Golden Gate on August 5, 1775 in his ship the San Carlos, and moored in a bay of Angel Island now known as Ayala Cove.

Captain James Cook circumnavigated the island in 1775 and made the first landing.

The first military submarine was the Turtle ( 1775 ), a hand-powered acorn-shaped device designed by the American David Bushnell to accommodate a single person.

After the American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ) many loyalists fled to Caribbean colonies, including ( in 1783 ) the first settlers on the Caicos Islands ; cotton became an important crop briefly.

He was commissioned as a major, then became George Washington's aide-de-camp and, on August 14, 1775 Washington appointed him to become the army's first Quartermaster General under order of Congress.

* armed sloop ( 18 May 1775 – 7 July 1777 ), the first American ship to bear the name served on Lake Champlain

He married Helena Cookes ( an amateur botanical illustrator, and erstwhile patient of his ) in 1772 ; they had three children ( the first, Helena was born in 1775 but died a few days later, William was born in 1776, and Charlotte in 1778 ).

* March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels ( in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service ), not to be confused with October 13, 1775 which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.

The original Beaumarchais version was first performed in 1775, in Paris at the Comédie-Française at the Tuileries Palace.

The route led first to the South Atlantic, then through the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean to the island of Polynesia and finally around Cape Horn back to England, where the expedition arrived on July 30, 1775.