1775
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Events
- British East India Company revenues from its opium monopoly in Bengal are hereafter treated as excise tax revenues rather than company profits.
- Lord Dunmore forced out as royal governor of Virginia.
Timeline
- April 19th - British Troops engage colonial militiamen at Lexington and Concord, the first combat of the Revolutionary War.
- May 1775: Benjamin Franklin is chosen a delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
- July 1775: Benjamin Franklin is appointed Postmaster by the Second Continental Congress.
- December: Newly appointed British East India Company governor of Madras, George Pigot, arrives in the colony.