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 ".

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.

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.

Charlottetown, the capital of the new colony of St. John's Island, was ransacked in 1775 with the provincial secretary kidnapped and the Great Seal stolen.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

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.

Allen traveled into the northern parts of the Grants early in 1775, as was his custom, for solitude and to hunt for game and land opportunities.

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.

Eusebius Amort ( November 15, 1692 – February 5, 1775 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.

As the revolution drew near, he aligned with the Whigs, and was elected to the New Jersey provincial assembly in 1775.

He moved to Bordentown, New Jersey in 1774, became an assemblyman for the state's Royal Provincial Council, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar on May 8, 1775.

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

One of the earliest purely " American " rifle-shooting competitions took place in 1775, when Daniel Morgan was recruiting sharpshooters in Virginia for the impending American Revolutionary War.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

In 1771 and again in 1775 the town of St. George, which was constructed solely of wood, was burnt to the ground-after which it was sensibly rebuilt using stone and brick.

In St. John's, individuals violating a 1775 law banning hunting the Great Auk for its feathers or eggs were publicly flogged, though hunting for use as fishing bait was still permitted.

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.

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.

He went to Italy with Vien in 1775, as Vien had been appointed director of the French Academy at Rome.

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

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.

On June 17 the Battle of Bunker Hill energized the Patriots ; Congress established the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief in June 1775.

When Galeazzi died in 1775, Galvani was appointed professor ad lecturam antomicam cum ostensione partium humani coporis domi in Galeazzi's place.

Isaac Pearson was elected several times to the state assembly, served on the General Committee of Correspondence appointed by the Provincial Assembly July 21, 1774 and first Committee of Safety October 1775.

On the outbreak of the American War of Independence, he was appointed to a command, and arrived in Boston in May 1775, a few weeks after the first shots of the war had been fired at Lexington and Concord.

General George Washington was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775.

On his return to Halle, Griesbach acted for some time as Privatdozent, but in 1773 was appointed to a professorial chair ; in 1775 he went to the University of Jena, where he spent the rest of his life ( though he received calls to other universities ).

In June 1775, George Washington, a charismatic Virginia political leader with combat experience in the French and Indian War, was unanimously appointed commander of a newly organized Continental Army.

In 1775, he was appointed maître des ballets of the Paris Opera at the request of Queen Marie Antoinette.

Following a total of nine years as governor over the next 15 years, Hopkins was once again appointed as Chief Justice of the court in 1770, and served until October 1775, while simultaneously serving as a delegate to the Continental Congress.

In July 1775 a national postal system, devised by William Goddard, was adopted, with Benjamin Franklin appointed as the first Postmaster General.

He was appointed a brigadier of the Continental Army by the Continental Congress on June 22, 1775.

Having been called to the bar in 1756, in 1773 he was appointed the first chief justice of the new supreme court at Calcutta, and in 1775 presided at the trial of Maharaja Nandakumar, who was accused of forging a bond in an attempt to deprive a widow of more than half her inheritance.

In December 1775 he directed the city's defences in the Battle of Quebec and the ensuing siege, which was broken by the arrival of British troops in May 1776 under command of John Burgoyne, who was appointed Second-in-Command.

On 10 November 1775, Germain was appointed Secretary of State for the American Department replacing Lord Dartmouth in the post.

In 1775, he was appointed departmental secretary with the rank of Captain for the new British Superintendent's Mohawk warriors from Canajoharie.

When Peyton Randolph died in 1775, Braxton was appointed to take his place in the Continental Congress.

The Continental Congress appointed him Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and he was elected to the Congress in 1775.

In 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General, the U. S. Post Office was born.

* 1775: First postmaster general appointed: Benjamin Franklin

In 1775 he was appointed to the frigate Terpsichore, attached to the training squadron, in which the duc de Chartres, afterwards notorious as the duc d ' Orléans and as Philippe Egalité, was entered as volunteer.

Schuyler was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775, and served until he was appointed a Major General of the Continental Army in June.