The temperature on May 14, 1775 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest by west. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
July 5 » The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
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