WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1775
Find out what all happened May to July 1775

American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill. (17. June 1775)

The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. (5. July 1775)

American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina. (31. May 1775)

The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. (8. July 1775)

The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel. (11. June 1775)

American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. (3. July 1775)

American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. (15. June 1775)

American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged. (12. June 1775)

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is signed in Charlotte, North Carolina (20. May 1775)

American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army. (14. June 1775)

American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga. (10. May 1775)

American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec. (17. May 1775)

American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. (10. May 1775)

The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. (26. July 1775)