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| 1774 |
| | Illiterate visionary Ann Lee, leader of an English sect, the 'Shaking Quakers', crosses the Atlantic to spread the word | |
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| 1774 |
| | English chemist Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen, but he believes it to be 'dephlogisticated air' | |
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| 1774 |
| | Delegates from twelve American colonies meet in Philadelphia and agree not to import any goods from Britain | |
| | Signatures on the petition of the Continental Congress National Archives, Kew
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| 1774 |
| | Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London | |
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| c. 1775 |
| | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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| 1775 |
| | Pioneer Daniel Boone and other backwoodsmen cut the road west that will bring settlers to Kentucky | |
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| 1775 |
| | Patrick Henry makes a stirring declaration – 'Give me liberty or give me death' – to the Virginia Assembly | |
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| 1775 |
| | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
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| 1775 |
| | General Gage sends a detachment of British troops to seize weapons held by American Patriots at Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | Paul Revere is one of the US riders taking an urgent warning to Concord, but he is captured on the journey | |
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