At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, a company of minutemen from Acton responded to the call to arms initiated by Paul Revere ( who rode with other riders, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, with Prescott the only one of the three who was able reach Acton itself ) and fought at the North Bridge in Concord as part of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Mary's grandmother, Amanda Danforth, daughter of Asa Danforth, Jr., and wife of Elijah Phillips, Jr., was the first white child born in Onondaga County, New York ; her great-grandfathers included Genral Asa Danforth, early settler in upstate New York and leader of the State Militia, and Elijah Philips, Sr., who responded to the Alarm to Lexington, Massachussetts, in 1775 and later served as High Sherrif of Onondaga County.

Trade with Great Britain fell sharply, and the British responded with the New England Restraining Act of 1775.

When colonists formed the extra-legal Massachusetts Provincial Congress and began organizing militia units independent of British control, Parliament responded on February 9, 1775, by declaring that Massachusetts was in a state of rebellion.

The motivations for the English Civil War ( 1642 – 51 ), the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 83 ), and French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ) partly derived from the desire of the bourgeoisie to rid themselves of the feudal trammels and royal encroachments upon their personal liberty, commercial rights, and the ownership of property.

On the night of 20 April 1775, royal marines loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon intent on transporting it down the Quarterpath Road to the James River to be loaded aboard the British ship.

In the early 19th century, the area that would later become Westwood was within the larger political boundaries of Harrington Township, which had been established by royal charter in 1775.

In July 1775, the Provincial Congress had the provincial records seized from royal officials in Portsmouth and brought to Exeter as well.

Hoppner became a chorister at the royal chapel, but, showing strong inclination for art, in 1775 he entered the Royal Academy.

In 1775 royal astronomer Szymon Antoni Sobiekrajski published a report in which he stated that Suchowola is the exact geographic centre of Europe.

In 1774 and 1775, the people of the colony elected a provincial Congress, independent of the royal governor, as the American Revolution began.

During and after the period of the American Revolution the court had members who were appointed by royal governors, the executive council of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress ( which acted as the state's executive from 1775 to 1780 ), and governors elected under the state constitution.

Angered by the news of the battle of Concord, on the eleventh of May 1775, the patriots stormed the royal magazine at Savannah and carried off its ammunition.

By 1775 they had become the operating government of all the colonies, as the royal officials were expelled.

By 1775 they had become counter-governments that gradually replaced royal authority and took control of local governments.

He entered the royal army at the age of sixteen, and in 1775 published his Essai théorique et practique sur les batailles.

While the Seven Years ' War, 1756 – 1763, led to an increase in the royal debt and the loss of nearly all of France's North American possessions, it was not until 1775 that the French economy began truly to enter a state of crisis.

The first was the Quaker Act of 1662 ,< ref >' Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the Mischeifs In November 1775, Virginia's former royal governor claimed that all slaves would be freed if they were willing to fight for Great Britain.

In November 1775 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation offering freedom to all slaves and indentured servants who would leave rebel masters and join the British.

It was given royal assent by George III on March 30, 1775.

Fighting broke out in spring 1775, and all Thirteen Colonies rallied to expel royal officials.

The unit's official lineage and honors certificate only recognizes lineage extending back to 1881, while the regiment has traditionally held that it was descended from Cresap's Rifles, a company of infantry raised in 1775.

In 1775, George Washington came up from Virginia to take command of fledgling volunteer American soldiers camped on the Cambridge Common — today called the birthplace of the U. S. Army.

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 ).

Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen steam engine, the Watt steam engine, developed sporadically from 1763 to 1775, was a great step in the development of the steam engine.

This name originates from sičan, written as svičan in the New Carniolan Almanac from 1775 and changed to its final form by Franc Metelko in his New Almanac from 1824.

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.

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.

* 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.

Reynolds often adapted the poses of his subjects from the works of earlier artists, a practice mocked by Nathaniel Hone in a painting called The Conjuror submitted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1775, and now in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Dates given for the establishment of the society range from " sometime before 1760 " to 1775.

William WitheringIf William Small's arrival in 1765 had been the catalyst to the development of the Lunar Circle as a cohesive group, his death – probably from malaria – in 1775 was to mark another change in its structure.

Although the 1770s was one of the society's richest eras in terms of its collaborative achievements, the society's meetings declined from regular occurrences in 1775 to infrequent ones by the end of the decade.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

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.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.

* 1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.

Peyton Randolph ( September 10, 1721 – October 22, 1775 ) was a planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia.

In September 1774, the First Continental Congress brought together delegates from the colonies in Philadelphia, followed by the Second Continental Congress, which met from May 1775 to March 1781.

His position changed from an obsession in 1774 with the question of the authority of Parliament to a search for a formula for conciliation in 1775.

They revolted against the Kingdom of Great Britain under King George III with the onset of the American Revolution starting in 1775, and in 1776 declared their independence from the British Empire and formed a new nation, the United States of America.

* July 20 – Ninian Edwards – Governor of Illinois and Senator from Illinois ( b. 1775 )

* February 22, 1732-George Washington-Considered the father of the U. S .. Was born in the Virginia Colony. First president of the United States from 1789-1797. Became commander-in-chief of the army in May 1775. George crossed the Potomac River. He died in 1799.

State ’ s Committee of Safety from 1775 to 1781.