1775
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| Gregorian calendar | 1775 MDCCLXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2528 |
| Armenian calendar | 1224 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6525 |
| Bengali calendar | 1182 |
| Berber calendar | 2725 |
| British Regnal year | 15 Geo. 3 – 16 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2319 |
| Burmese calendar | 1137 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7283–7284 |
| Chinese calendar |
甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4471 or 4411 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4472 or 4412 |
| Coptic calendar | 1491–1492 |
| Discordian calendar | 2941 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1767–1768 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5535–5536 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1831–1832 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1696–1697 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4875–4876 |
| Holocene calendar | 11775 |
| Igbo calendar | 775–776 |
| Iranian calendar | 1153–1154 |
| Islamic calendar | 1188–1189 |
| Japanese calendar |
An'ei 4 (安永４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1700–1701 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4108 |
| Minguo calendar | 137 before ROC 民前137年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 307 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2317–2318 |
1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1775th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 775th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1775, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
The American Revolution begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) and a Marine force (November 10) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British (June 12) and American (July 15) governments make laws. On July 6, Congress issues the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and on August 23, King George III of England declares the American colonies in rebellion, announcing it to parliament on November 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.
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