Editing 1775 (section)

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* [[Industrial Revolution]] in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]].
** [[James Watt]]'s 1769 [[steam engine]] [[patent]] is extended to June 1800 by [[Act of Parliament]] and the first [[Watt steam engine|engine]]s are built under it.<ref>{{cite journal|first=F. M.|last=Scherer|title=Invention and Innovation in the Watt-Boulton Steam-Engine Venture|journal=[[Technology and Culture]]|volume=6|issue=2|year=1965|pages=165–87|jstor=3101072|doi=10.2307/3101072|s2cid=112618665 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwattsenginespread.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120525164012/http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwattsenginespread.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 25, 2012|title=The Invention of the Steam Engine: The Life of James Watt. Part 4: The Steam Engine Gains Popularity|work=About.com Inventors|access-date=2011-02-25}}</ref>
** [[John Wilkinson (industrialist)|John Wilkinson]] invents and patents a new kind of [[boring (manufacturing)|boring machine]].
* [[Catherine the Great]] decrees a Statute for the Administration of the Provinces of the Russian Empire dividing the country into provinces and districts for efficient government.<ref name=Madriaga/>
* A [[North American smallpox epidemic|smallpox epidemic]] begins in [[New England]].
* Typhoon Liengkieki devastates the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] [[atoll]] of [[Pingelap]].
* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] writes his five [[violin concerto]]s in [[Salzburg]] at about this date.
* The [[Calcutta Theatre]] is inaugurated. 
* [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]] founds the [[Chabad]]-Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish dynasty.
* Probable date – [[Jeanne Baret]] returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a [[circumnavigation]] of the globe.</onlyinclude>
* ''[[Breguet (brand)|Breguet]]'', one of the oldest Swiss luxury watch brands, clock and jewelry manufacturers is founded by [[Abraham-Louis Breguet]] in Paris.