WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1775
Find out what all happened October to November 1775

American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston. (28. October 1775)

The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy). (13. October 1775)

African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. (18. October 1775)

American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal, Quebec. (13. November 1775)

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 in order to fight with Murray and the British. (7. November 1775)

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. (26. October 1775)

The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. (10. November 1775)

American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy. (18. October 1775)