Captain James Cook discovered the southern eight islands of the Sandwich Islands Group in 1775, although he lumped the southernmost three together, and their status as separate islands was not established until 1820 by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

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.

Lavater later described Mendelssohn in his book on physiognomy, " Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe " ( 1775 – 1778 ), as " a companionable, brilliant soul, with piercing eyes, the body of an Aesop — a man of keen insight, exquisite taste and wide erudition [...] frank and open-hearted "— ending his public praise with the wish of Mendelssohn recognizing, " together with Plato and Moses ... the crucified glory of Christ ".

In September 1775 Hester, Henry and their eldest child Queeney, together with Samuel Johnson and Giuseppe Baretti, went to Paris.

When the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress.

When the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Congress.

In 1775 she completely transformed ( together with her husband ) the Czartoryski Palace at Puławy into an intellectual and political meeting place.

he was Marshal of Sejm ( Partition Sejm, together with Adam Poniński ) on April 19, 1773-April 11, 1775 in Warsaw.

In 1775 she published the collection of poems Stichtelijke gedichten, which she had written together with Maria Bosch.

They apparently lived together from about 1775 until the end of Battishill's life.

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.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.

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.

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.

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

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

Spain later recouped most of those territorial losses with the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ), which ended the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ), and gained an improved international standing.

Watt attempted to commercialise his invention, but experienced great financial difficulties until he entered a partnership with Matthew Boulton in 1775.

This was actually put in practice, and in the winter of 1775 the British Army in North America was supplied with mustard and cress seeds.

With the other delegates, he signed the Association of Freemen on July 26, 1775, which expressed hope for reconciliation with Great Britain, but also called for military resistance to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts.

They soon established good relations with the British East India Company in 1775.

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.

John Whitehurst's move to London in 1775 had a less dramatic effect: he kept in regular contact with other members of the society and remained an occasional attender of meetings.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.

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.

Melilla was immediately threatened with reconquest and was besieged 1694 – 1696 and 1774 – 1775.

Prithvi Narayan Shah ( c. 1769 – 1775 ), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah ( 1559 – 1570 ), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.

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 – 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.

In January 1775 he returned to Edinburgh, and that summer went with his aunt Jenny to take spa treatment at Bath in England, where they lived at 6 South Parade.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.

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.

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.

* 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.

Although Maudslay was not the first person to invent a slide-rest ( as many writers have claimed ), and may not have been the first inventor to combine a lead screw, slide-rest, and set of change gears all on one lathe ( Jesse Ramsden may have done that in 1775 ; evidence is scant ), he is certainly the person who introduced to the rest of the world the winning three-part combination of lead screw, slide rest, and change gears, sparking a great advance in machine tools and in the engineering use of screw threads.

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 ).

If the substance of the story is true, then this visit to the theatre could have occurred no later than 1775 because the rest of The Runaway was written, sent to well-known actor-manager David Garrick, and produced at Drury Lane theatre by 15 February 1776.

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.

Together with the rest of Bukovina, Vatra Dornei was under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy ( later Austria-Hungary ) from 1775 to 1918.

Together with the rest of Bukovina, Câmpulung Moldovenesc was under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy ( later Austria-Hungary ) from 1775 to 1918.

Together with the rest of Bukovina, Siret was under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy ( later Austria-Hungary ) from 1775 to 1918.

He stayed there for the rest of his life and finally died in 1775 at the age of 50 during the reign of Emperor Shah Alam II.

After the Russian annexation of Bessarabia in 1812, and Austrian annexation of Bukovina in 1775, the rest of Moldova united with Walachia and formed the modern Romania.