In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

( 1727 – 1775 ) and Elizabeth Steptoe ( 1743 – 1789 ), who married secondly, Philip Richard Fendall I ( 1734 – 1805 ).

# Sarah Caldwell " Sally " Lee ( 1775 – 1837 ), who married Edmund Jennings Lee I ( 1772 – 1843 ), son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ).

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 ).

# Maria Anna of Savoy ( 17 December 1757 – 11 October 1824 ) married Prince Benedetto of Savoy in 1775, no issue.

In 1775 Charles Emmanuel married Marie Clotilde of France, the daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France and Princess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, and sister of King Louis XVI of France.

In 1775 he married his first wife Jane Elizabeth Kerr, daughter of a surgeon.

Elizabeth had married John Knowles, son of an English immigrant, and Knowles inherited the entire estate upon her death around 1775.

Caldwell married Elcy Hughes in the winter of 1775 on the south side of the river in Nippenose Township.

His mother was born Angélique de Niocel, also from a family of recent nobility ( her grandfather had been ennobled in 1775 and her brother married a niece of Marshal Joachim Murat, brother-in-law of Napoleon ).

He married twice: his first wife was Lady Sarah Frances Seymour-Conway ( 27 September 1747 – 20 July 1770 ) on 7 June 1775, he married Frances, daughter of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden.

Maria married Edward Weld, 16 years her senior, a rich Catholic landowner of Lulworth Castle in July 1775.

* Cecilia Margaret Ogilvie ( 1775 – 1824 ), married Charles Lock, British consul-general in Naples and Egypt.

Du Pont married Sophie Dalmas ( 1775 – 1828 ) in 1791, and they had eight children.

Thomas Ingersoll married the seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Dewey on 28 February 1775.

# Elizabeth Mason Sedgwick, born April 30, 1775, married Thaddeus Pomeroy, and died October 15, 1827.

In 1775, George married Lady Mary Nugent, daughter of the 1st Viscount Clare ( later the 1st Earl Nugent ).

* Lord George William Frederick Osborne ( 21 July 1775 – 10 July 1838 ), later 6th Duke of Leeds ; married Lady Charlotte Townshend, daughter of the 1st Marquess Townshend, on 17 August 1797 and had issue.

* Faith Trumbull ( 1743 – 1775 ), who married General Jedidiah Huntington

His mother Rachel Moore had married Captain William Allston in 1775, though her husband died in 1781, shortly after the Battle of Cowpens.

In 1775, after Aleksandra Czartoryska married Hetman Michal Kazimierz Oginski, the town passed over to the Oginski family.

In 1775 Anna Ossilinska married John Pieniazek, bringing as a dowry her share of part of the city.

He was further aided by an advantageous marriage on 5 October 1749 to Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Jeffreys of the Priory, Brecknock, by whom he had a son John Jeffreys, his successor in title and estates, and four daughters, of whom the eldest, Frances, married Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry on 7 June 1775.

* Caroline ( b. 1775 ), married Colonel Duncan of the East India Company, 1797

In the summer of 1775, his sister Elizabeth ( age 7 ) and his brother Reuben ( age 3 ) died in a dysentery epidemic that swept through Orange County because of contaminated water.

During the ten years of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, ( 1772 – 1836 ); Jane ( 1774 – 1775 ); an unnamed son ( 1777 ); Mary Wayles, called Polly, ( 1778 – 1804 ); Lucy Elizabeth ( 1780 – 1781 ); and Lucy Elizabeth ( 1782 – 1785 ).

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 )).

Thomas Hervey ( 20 January 1699 – 1775 ), was one of the members for Bury from 1733 to 1747 ; held various offices at court ; and eloped with Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer.

# Lady Harriet Isabella Elizabeth Somerset ( 9 July 1775 – 1 June 1855 ), married Colonel Hugh Henry Mitchell and had one son and two daughters.

* Secondly in 1841, 14 years after the death of his first wife, to Elizabeth Geale ( d. May 1896 ), daughter of Piers Geale and widow of Sir Marcus Somerville, 4th Baronet ( c. 1775 – 1831 ).

Brownson was married twice: first, in 1769, to Elizabeth Lewis, who died in 1775 ; then to Elizabeth McLean in 1776.

Walter May married Elizabeth Stanford of Strettit Place, East Peckham in 1775.

The most known pretenders to this rank are two princesses Tarakanova, one of which ( August ) became a nun under name Dosifeya died in 1810 and was buried in the Romanov family crypt, and another ( Elizabeth Tarakanova ) who was arrested in Livorno by Aleksei Grigoryevich Orlov and delivered to Russia in February 1775, and was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress where she died from tuberculosis.

" The Spooners had their first child, Elizabeth, on April 8, 1767 Three more followed between 1770 and 1775 ; Joshua ( February 21, 1770-September 18, 1801 ), who died in London, England and daughter Bathsheba Spooner ( January 17, 1775 – 1858 ).

Philip died in 1775, and Elizabeth continued to reside there.

The Honorable Elizabeth Aldworth ( 1693 / 95-1773 / 1775 ), born the Hon.

Elizabeth Aldworth died in 1775.

On the south wall of chancel to Nicholas Bonfoy, Serjeant-at-Arms, son and heir of Nicholas Bonfoy of Abbots Ripton, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Hale, of Kings Walden, d. 12 Oct. 1775 ; to John Bonfoy Rooper, d. 11 Mar.

In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

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

* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

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

Ampère was born on 20 January 1775 to Jean-Jacques Ampère, a prosperous businessman, and Jeanne Antoinette Desutières-Sarcey Ampère during the height of the French Enlightenment.

* 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.

* 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( d. 1775 )

* 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins ; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.

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

Map of the 13 American Colonies in 1775.

* 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.

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.

* 1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.

* 1775 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator ( d. 1870 )

* 1775 – Charlotte of Spain ( d. 1830 )

* 1833 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician ( b. 1775 )

James Lind's anemometer of 1775 consisted simply of a glass U tube containing a liquid manometer ( pressure gauge ), with one end bent in a horizontal direction to face the wind and the other vertical end remains parallel to the wind flow.

According to Robert W. Gutman, Mozart's K. 222 Offertory in D minor, " Misericordias Domini ," written in 1775, contains a melody that foreshadows " Ode to Joy ".

* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.