In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.

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.

By the time the Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, the Battles of Lexington and Concord had already begun in April, and while delegates were still making their way to Philadelphia, which marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

In 1775, Lafayette met the Marquis of Ruffec and the Duke of Gloucester in the present-day courthouse and decided to support the American Revolutionary War.

The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, after adjournment from Concord, met from April to July 1775 in the First Parish Church, the site of which is marked by a monument.

* In the 4th season 30 Rock episode " Winter Madness ", character Tracy Jordan accuses a Bostonian John Hancock re-enactor of lying after claiming to have met Attucks at a Sons of Liberty meeting in 1775, five years after his death.

In 1775, Lafayette took part in his unit's annual training in Metz, where he met Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, the Army of the East's commander.

The French painter Jacques-Louis David met Mengs in Rome ( 1775 – 80 ) and was introduced through him to the artistic theories of Winckelmann.

Hopkins was again elected as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, which met on 10 May 1775 following the April attacks on Concord and Lexington.

In March 1775, Henderson met with more than 1, 200 Cherokee at Sycamore Shoals ( present day Elizabethton in northeastern Tennessee ).

In May 1775, under the shade of a huge elm tree, a three-day convention met.

After the American Revolutionary War began in April 1775 following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress met in May at the Pennsylvania State House.

The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775, following the Battles of Lexington and Concord in which colonial forces resisted a large British force on April 19 and drove it back to Boston.

The first formal movement for a navy came from Rhode Island, whose State Assembly passed on August 26, 1775, a resolution instructing its delegates to Congress to introduce legislation calling " for building at the Continental expense a fleet of sufficient force, for the protection of these colonies, and for employing them in such a manner and places as will most effectively annoy our enemies ..." The measure in the Continental Congress was met with much derision, especially on the part of Maryland delegate Samuel Chase who exclaimed it to be " the maddest idea in the world.

In March 1775, land speculator and North Carolina judge Richard Henderson met with more than 1, 200 Cherokees at Sycamore Shoals, including Cherokee leaders such as Attacullaculla, Oconostota, and Dragging Canoe.

The Assembly last met on April 3, 1775.

In January 1775 Committees of Safety from over twenty towns in the New Hampshire Grants area met in Manchester to discuss the need for independence from New York.

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.

In 1774, Salvador was chosen to be a delegate to the revolutionary Provincial Congress of the colony, which first met in Charleston in January 1775.

Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac ( 8 September 1749 – 9 December 1793 ) was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she first met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France.

It met secretly in December 1775 with a French intelligence agent who visited Philadelphia under cover as a Flemish merchant.

In May 1775, at the age of five, Bache met his grandfather for the first time.

He was a member of the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress, which met in Hillsborough on August 20, 1775.

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.

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

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 ).

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

# 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.

In 1775, he married Elizabeth Dewey.

" 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.