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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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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag, the British red ensign on a ground of thirteen stripes – one for each colony | |
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| 1776 |
| | | In Common Sense, an anonymous pamphlet, English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution | |
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