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.

Particularly notable examples included Freeth's Coffee House, one of the most celebrated meeting places of Georgian England ; Ketley's Building Society, the world's first building society, founded at the Golden Cross in Snow Hill in 1775 ; the Birmingham Book Club, whose radical politics saw it nicknamed the " Jacobin Club ", and which alongside other debating societies such as the Birmingham Free Debating Society and the Amicable Debating Society played a prominent role in the growing expression of popular political consciousness within the town ; and the more conservative Birmingham Bean Club, a dining club uniting leading loyalist figures in the town with prominent landowners from the surrounding counties, which played a prominent role in the emergence of a distinct " Birmingham interest " in regional politics from 1774.

Lloyds TSB | Lloyds bank was founded in 1765, the world's first Building Society Ketley's Building Society | Ketley's was founded in 1775, and Midland Bank ( now owned by HSBC was founded in 1836 ).

* 1775 – The first building society, Ketley's Building Society, was established in Birmingham, England.

* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

Sophia ( wisdom ) | Virgin Sophia design on a Harmony Society doorway in Harmony, Pennsylvania, carved by Frederick Reichert Rapp ( 1775 – 1834 ).

Under its founder and spiritual leader, Johann Georg Rapp ( 1757 – 1847 ); Frederick ( Reichert ) Rapp ( 1775 – 1834 ), his adopted son who managed its business affairs ; and their associates, the Society existed for one hundred years ; roughly from 1805 until 1905.

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

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.

In June 1768 Spallanzani was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1775 was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He seems thereafter to have devoted himself entirely to engraving on wood, and in 1775 he received a premium from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the " Huntsman and the Old Hound ".

From 1761 to 1776 he exhibited at the Society of Artists, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious Royal Academy.

Lyman Beecher ( October 12, 1775 – January 10, 1863 ) was a Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder and leader, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became noted figures, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher.

* William Phillips ( geologist ) ( 1775 – 1828 ), British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London

He was elected to the Royal Society in 1775, and also took part in the creation of the Linnean Society.

On February 24, 1775, Rittenhouse delivered a lecture on the history of astronomy to the American Philosophical Society, in which he linked the structure of nature to the rights of man, liberty and self-government.

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina, satirical drawing of a women's counterpublic in action in the Edenton Tea Party | 1775 tea boycott.

In 1775, he published an account of her in the Society of Antiquaries ' journal Archaeologia, entitled On the Expiration of the Cornish Language.

John Wynn Baker ( c. 1730 – 1775 ), agricultural improver and writer, established the first factory in Ireland in 1765 with the financial assistance of the Dublin Society on a property at Elm Hall on the Loughlinstown Road near the newly constructed Grand Canal at Hazlehatch for manufacturing agricultural implements.

As a member ( 1772 – 1791 ) of Poland's Commission of National Education ()– the world's first ministry of education – he was the initiator of and presided over the Society for Elementary Textbooks (, founded in 1775 ).

In 1775 he was appointed engraver-in-ordinary to George III ; and he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, of which for several years he acted as secretary.

He became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767, an associate-engraver of the Royal Academy in 1775, and for some forty years he followed his profession with the greatest success.

In 1775, he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, with whom he began to exhibit by sending five works ; he showed works there again in 1777 and 1778.

A nearby tavern ( now the Norwich Savings Society ) at " Peter Lanman's Corner ", at Main and Broadway in Norwich, is of interest because George Washington stayed there in 1775.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

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 – The first abolition society in North America is established.

Patrick Henry is best known for the speech he made in the House of Burgesses on March 23, 1775, in Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.

An Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original " Yankee Doodle " lyrics of the Revolutionary War.

The modern term chemical affinity is a somewhat modified variation of its eighteenth-century precursor " elective affinity " or elective attractions, a coinage of the Swedish chemist Torbern Olof Bergman from his book De attractionibus electivis ( 1775 ).

* 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.

Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ) claimed that the Fichte's " I " needs the Not-I, because there is no subject without object, and vice versa.

John Baskerville ( 28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775 ) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.

* 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.

* 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

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

* 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.

On the evening of 7 April 1775, he made the famous statement, " Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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.

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 ".

* 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.

* 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.

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Sohn Pow-Key claimed that Bi Sheng's baked clay was " fragile " was refuted by facts and experiments, Bao Shicheng ( 1775 – 1885 ) wrote that baked clay moveable type was " as hard and tough as horn "; experiments show that baked clay moveable type is hard and difficult to break, a clay moveable type dropped from a height of two metres onto a marble floor remained intact.

He later became a Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and he is most famous for leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada.

The first record of the name " sweet potato " is found in the Oxford English Dictionary of 1775.

On 23 April 1775, which is still celebrated in New Haven as Powder House Day, the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard, of New Haven entered the struggle against the governing British parliament.