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

He was the second President of the Continental Congress from October 22, 1774, until Peyton Randolph was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775.

Randolph was re-elected as president of the second congress in 1775 in which Middleton also served as a delegate until his resignation in 1776, citing ill health.

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

Captain James Cook visited the island in 1775 on the final leg of his second circumnavigation of the world.

They were to be disappointed: in late 1775, the king rejected Congress's second petition, issued a Proclamation of Rebellion, and announced before Parliament on October 26 that he was considering " friendly offers of foreign assistance " to suppress the rebellion.

* 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.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

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 ).

During this time, he developed machines for pre-spinning and in 1775 took out his second patent.

In 1775, the Battle of Chelsea Creek was fought here, the second battle of the Revolution, at which American forces made one of their first captures of a British ship.

William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.

Arkwright's second patent ( of 1775 ) for his carding machine was subsequently declared invalid, because it lacked originality.

In 1775, a second Act was passed allowing the company to raise more funds.

* Antoine Philippe d ' Orléans, Duke of Montpensier ( 1775 – 1807 ) second son of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

In 1775, he was made a Lieutenant Colonel and second in command to Hugh Mercer.

In September 1775, after the failure of the second letter to sway public opinion, the American Colonists launched an invasion of Quebec from Fort Ticonderoga and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

Since Pérez Hernández's first expedition failed to achieve its objective, the Spanish organized a second expedition in 1775 with the same goal.

He twice delivered orations in commemoration of the Massacre, the second time in March 1775 while the town was occupied by army troops.

On his return to Mannheim in 1775, Vogler was appointed court chaplain and second maestro di cappella.

He was returned to the second Congress in 1775, but as differences with Great Britain became more pronounced, the Congress began to adopt a harder line.

When regiments were raised for the defense of Philadelphia in 1775, John became Colonel of the second regiment.

Patrick Tonyn ( 1725 – 1804 ) was a British General who served as the second colonial governor of East Florida from 1775 to 1783.

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

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.

* 1775 – Juan Martín Díez, Spanish captain ( d. 1825 )

* 1751 – 1775 – 13 % of appointees to audiencias in the Spanish Empire are Creoles.

In 1565, the Spanish named " Carlos Bay ," followed by the English in 1775 who named the area Charlotte Harbor in tribute to the Queen Charlotte Sophia, wife of King George III.

The northernmost latitude he reached was 54 ° 40 ′ N. This was followed, in 1775, by another Spanish expedition, under the command of Bruno de Heceta and including Juan Peréz and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra as officers.

In 1775, after building a series of missions in the region, the Spanish established a fort in the Tucson region to control the native American settlements nearby.

In 1775, after building a series of missions in the region, the Spanish established a fort in the Tucson region to control the native American settlements nearby.

In 1775 Spanish soldiers came to the Ramona area and attacked a native village (" Pamo ") in retaliation for the destruction of a nearby mission.

He served under his uncle in the navy of Tuscany, and commanded the Tuscan frigates in the Spanish led Invasion of Algiers ( 1775 ).

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.

When war broke out in 1775, the Comte de Vergennes, then the Foreign Minister, outlined a series of proposals that led to secret French and also Spanish support of the rebel movement, and some preparations for the possibility of war, including expansion of their navies.

The first contact occurred in 1775 when a Spanish ship missed its landing and the Quileutes took them as slaves.

It is named in honor of the Spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí ( 1775 – 1841 ).

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.

Present day Bodega Bay was first charted in 1775 by the Spanish Peruvian explorer of the Spanish Navy Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, but the bay that was originally named for him was not present day Bodega, but Tomales Bay.

* Francisco Tadeo Calomarde y Arría ( 1775 – 1842 ), a Spanish statesman

Don José de Cañizares — diarist on the 1769 overland Portola expedition and who sailed with Don Juan Manuel de Ayala on the San Carlos, the first ship to enter San Francisco Bay on August 5, 1775 — named the cove north and west of Benicia Puerto de las Asunta ( Asumption Harbor in Spanish ) because he discovered it on that feast day in 1775.

* Sonora ( also Felicidad and Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe ), a Spanish schooner captained by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in his and Bruno de Heceta's 1775 expedition from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada

Chilean settlers of Spanish California from the present Region of the Bio Bío ( especially from Concepción, Talcahuano, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Rere ) may have played a part in the establishment of Los Angeles, California, and the rest of southern California in the period between 1775 and 1820.