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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates from the states reassemble in Philadelphia, with hostilities against the British already under way in Massachusetts | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates in Philadelphia select George Washington as commander-in-chief of the colonial army | |
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| 1775 |
| | | At Bunker Hill, overlooking Boston from the north, the American militiamen prove their worth against British professional soldiers | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates to the Continental Congress make a final bid for peace, sending the Olive Branch Petition to George III | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Britain declares the colonies to be in a state of rebellion, and sets up a naval blockade of the American coastline | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Yankee Doodle is the most popular song with the patriot troops in the American Revolution | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Talleyrand begins an extremely varied career by becoming an abbot at the age of twenty-one | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Captain Cook publishes his discovery of a preventive cure against scurvy, in the form of a regular ration of lemon juice | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Francisco de Goya begins a series of designs for tapestries to be made in Spain's Royal Tapestry Factory | |
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