1775

Events in 1775 5

• 1775 – 1862 Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) Died 7 November 1862, aged 87 Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of India, a poet who wielded little real power under British rule. After being implicated as a nominal leader of the 1857 rebellion, he was exiled by the British to Rangoon, where he died in captivity.
• 1775 – 1854 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) Died 20 August 1854, aged 79 Schelling was a German philosopher and a central figure of German idealism alongside Fichte and Hegel. His work on nature philosophy and the philosophy of identity influenced later Romantic and existentialist thought.
• 1775 – 1844 Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775-1844) Died 3 June 1844, aged 68 Eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin. He led the French invasion of Spain in 1823. He nominally held the French throne for about twenty minutes in 1830 before renouncing it, and died in exile in Gorizia.
• 1775 – 1864 Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) Died 17 September 1864, aged 89 English writer and poet known for his prose work Imaginary Conversations and for his combative, independent life. He died in Florence, Italy, where he had spent much of his later life.
• 1775 – 1851 J. M. W. Turner Romanticism · England J. M. W. Turner (April 23, 1775 – December 19, 1851) was an English Romantic painter famous for his luminous seascapes and atmospheric landscapes. He anticipated Impressionism by decades and is considered Britain's greatest painter.