13th » The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
18th » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
18th » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
26th » King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
28th » American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1775
21st » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest, composer, and critic (d. 1844)
Famous Deaths for October 1775
2nd » Fukuda Chiyo-ni or Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
18th » Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
21st » Peyton Randolph, American lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)