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

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.

* 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.

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

* 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.

* 1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.

In 1775, Atake Tynay Biy Uulu one of the leaders of Sarybagysh tribe established first diplomatic ties with the Russian Empire by sending his envoys to Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg.

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

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

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

* 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.

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.

Captain James Cook circumnavigated the island in 1775 and made the first landing.

The first military submarine was the Turtle ( 1775 ), a hand-powered acorn-shaped device designed by the American David Bushnell to accommodate a single person.

After the American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ) many loyalists fled to Caribbean colonies, including ( in 1783 ) the first settlers on the Caicos Islands ; cotton became an important crop briefly.

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.

* armed sloop ( 18 May 1775 – 7 July 1777 ), the first American ship to bear the name served on Lake Champlain

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 ).

* 1775: Joseph Priestley first synthesis of " phlogisticated nitrous air " Nitrous Oxide " laughing gas "

* 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.

The original Beaumarchais version was first performed in 1775, in Paris at the Comédie-Française at the Tuileries Palace.

The route led first to the South Atlantic, then through the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean to the island of Polynesia and finally around Cape Horn back to England, where the expedition arrived on July 30, 1775.

Even after fighting in the American Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, most colonists still hoped for reconciliation with Great Britain.

When the fighting broke out in the American War of Independence in 1775 he volunteered to serve with rebel forces.

In 1798 the Western Precinct was organized as Montgomery Township, named for Colonel Richard Montgomery, who fell fighting for the patriot cause in the Battle of Quebec at the start of the Revolution ( 1775 ).

During those years, the United States evolved from a new nation fighting the British Empire for independence without a professional military ( 1775 – 1783 ), through the monumental American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) to the world's sole remaining superpower of the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Initial fighting began in 1775 and lasted until October 1781, when the British army, under the command of General Cornwallis, surrendered in Yorktown, Virginia.

The outbreak of open fighting between the colonists and British soldiers in April 1775 rendered moot any attempt to indirectly change British policies.

It is best known as the location where in 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, most of the fighting in the Battle of Bunker Hill took place.

Meanwhile, in June 1775, the fiercely loyal Governor of Bermuda, George James Bruere, who had lost one of his son John, who was killed fighting on the British side at the Battle of Bunker Hill, was enraged when, on 14 August, Bermudians sympathetic to the Revolution stole the island's supply of gunpowder from the Powder Magazine in St George's and shipped it to the rebels.

The Jason Russell House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts, the site of the bloodiest fighting on the first day of the Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 ( the Battle of Lexington and Concord ).

On 19 April 1775, the Light Infantry and Grenadier Companies participated in the march to Concord, and the resulting fighting at Lexington, Concord, and the march back to Boston.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Montgomery took up the Patriot cause, and was elected to the New York Provincial Congress in May 1775.

The political ideas had an important impact on the founding fathers of the United States, which broke away from the empire in 1775.

Taksin of Thonburi finally took Lanna in 1775 and broke it down into a number of tributary kingdoms.

Howe was sent to North America in March 1775, arriving in May after the Revolutionary War broke out.

Most of his government was focused first on the growing problems with the American colonies and later on conducting the American War of Independence which broke out in 1775, following the Battle of Lexington.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, he befriended General George Washington, and quickly rose to become the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army.

When the war broke out with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, Knox and Lucy snuck out of Boston, and Knox joined the militia army besieging the city.

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.

When Loyalists were threatened after the war broke out in April 1775, Brant moved to the Province of Quebec, arriving in Montreal on July 17.

In 1775, the American War of Independence broke out when some of Britain's American colonists rebelled.

Shortly after the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, a small enterprising force led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the key fortress at Ticonderoga on May 10.

Bowdoin was again ill in 1775 when the American Revolutionary War broke out, and the family was relocated from British-occupied Boston ( which was then under siege by area militia ) first to Dorchester, and eventually to Middleborough, where he resided until 1778.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out in early 1775, Quebec became a target for American forces, that sought to liberate the French population there from British rule.

After the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress ( which exercised de facto control over the province outside besieged Boston ), sought to reorganize the courts to remove the trappings of British sovereignty.

When American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, British troops were under siege in Boston.

He broke off his studies in Princeton in 1775 to return to Pennsylvania and join the fight in the Revolutionary War.

He represented his community in the New Hampshire Provincial Congresses, which met just after hostilities broke out at Lexington and Concord in 1775 and which later drafted the one hundred and thirty eight state constitution.

When open rebellion broke out in the American colonies in 1775, the Irish Parliament passed several initiatives which showed support for the American grievances.

These actions further raised tensions that broke out into the American War of Independence in April 1775.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, Strong was unable to serve in the military because of his damaged sight, but he was otherwise active in the Patriot cause.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775, Wooster was in charge of the militia at New Haven.

) This act was in force in the Province of Quebec when the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775.