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| Gregorian calendar | 1775 MDCCLXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2528 |
| Armenian calendar | 1224 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6525 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1696–1697 |
| Bengali calendar | 1182 |
| Berber calendar | 2725 |
| British Regnal year | 15 Geo. 3 – 16 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2319 |
| Burmese calendar | 1137 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7283–7284 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4472 or 4265 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4473 or 4266 |
| Coptic calendar | 1491–1492 |
| Discordian calendar | 2941 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1767–1768 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5535–5536 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1831–1832 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1696–1697 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4875–4876 |
| Holocene calendar | 11775 |
| Igbo calendar | 775–776 |
| Iranian calendar | 1153–1154 |
| Islamic calendar | 1188–1189 |
| Japanese calendar | An'ei4 (安永4年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1700–1701 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4108 |
| Minguo calendar | 137 before ROC 民前137年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 307 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2317–2318 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1901 or 1520 or 748 — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1902 or 1521 or 749 |
1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1775th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 775th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1775, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement on April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's ride. The Second Continental Congress took various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) and a Marine force (November 10) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British (June 12) and American (July 15) governments make laws. On July 6, Congress issues the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and on August 23, King George III of Great Britain declares the American colonies in rebellion, announcing it to Parliament on November 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.
Human knowledge and mastery over nature advanced when James Watt built a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continued as Captain James Cook claims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean for Britain. Nature's power over humanity is dramatically demonstrated when the Independence Hurricane (August 29 – September 13) devastates the east coast of North America, killing 4,173, and when, on the western side of the North American continent, Tseax Cone erupts in the future British Columbia, as well as when a smallpox epidemic begins in New England. Smallpox vaccine was then developed by Edward Jenner. There is no cure for smallpox.
The American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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