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| 1 | 1753 | - 1753: The British Parliament extends citizenship to Jews.
- 1753: The Cramer family starts a brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner
- 1 Mar 1753: Sweden adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 31 Oct 1753: Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country. The Seven Years' War, the first global conflict, ensues
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| 2 | 1754 | - 1754: King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793) is born.
- 1754: William Bligh, English sailor (d. 1817), is born.
- 15 Jan 1754: Richard Martin is born. Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1834)
- 19 Jun 1754: The Albany Congress of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
- 13 Dec 1754: Osman III (1754-1757) succeeds Mahmud I as Ottoman Emperor
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| 3 | 1755 | - 1755: Construction of the Puning Temple complex in Chengde, China is complete, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor
- 13 Feb 1755: The kingdom of Mataram on Java is divided in two, creating the sultanate of Yogyakarta and the sunanate of Surakarta
- 9 Jul 1755: French and Indian War - Braddock Expedition: British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
- 1 Nov 1755: Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing 60,000-90,000 people.
- 2 Nov 1755: Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)is born.
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| 4 | 1756 | - 1756: Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato
- 27 Jan 1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791) is born.
- 15 May 1756: The Seven Years' War formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France
- 7 Sep 1756: Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (d. 1831) is born.
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| 5 | 1757 | - 5 Jan 1757: Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Louis XV of France.
- 6 May 1757: Seven Years' War - Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
- 18 Jun 1757: Seven Years' War - Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
- 22 Jun 1757: George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798) is born.
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| 6 | 1758 | - 23 Jun 1758: Seven Years' War - Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.
- 25 Dec 1758: Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.
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| 7 | 1759 | - 1759: George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis
- 1759: The Famous Guinness Brewery is founded in St. James's Gate, Dublin Ireland.
- 7 Nov 1759: Jan Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
- 7 Nov 1759: Jan Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
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| 8 | 1760 | - 22 Aug 1760: Pope Leo XII (d. 1829) is born.
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| 9 | 1761 | - 1761: George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte are crowned.
- 1 Sep 1761: Five year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives his first public appearance at the Salzburg university.
- 20 Nov 1761: Pope Pius VIII (d. 1850) is born.
- 1 Dec 1761: Marie Tussaud, French wax modeller (d. 1850) is born.
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| 10 | 1762 | - 5 Feb 1762: The Great Holocaust (1762) of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, over 500,000 men, women and children perish in this campaign of slaughter.
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| 11 | 1763 | - 10 Feb 1763: French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
- 15 Feb 1763: The Treaty of Hubertusburg puts an end to the Seven Years' War between Prussia and Austria and their allies.
- 23 Feb 1763: The Berbice Slave Uprising starts in the former Dutch colony of Berbice (British Ghana).
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| 12 | 1764 | - 1764: Jozef II wordt in Frankfurt tot Rooms-Duits koning gekozen.
- 19 Jan 1764: John Wilkes is expelled from the United Kingdom House of Commons for seditious libel
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| 13 | 1765 | - 1765: The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul.
- 1765: James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with the more effective Watt steam engine.
- 18 Sep 1765: Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1837) is born.
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| 14 | 1766 | - 1766: American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act which is very unpopular in the British colonies. The persuasion of Benjamin Franklin is considered partly responsible. The Declaratory Act asserts the right of Britain to bind the colonies in all other respects
- 30 May 1766: Robert Darwin, medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (d. 1848) is born.
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| 15 | 1767 | - 1767: Mozart completes his first true opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus.
- 1767: Kunta Kinte, ancestor of author Alex Haley (Roots), arrives in Annapolis, Maryland on board a slave ship.
- 1767: Jan Nijhuis(Niehuis) is born in Weerselo, Dinkelland, Overijssel, Nederland.
- 1 Jan 1767: The Nautical Almanac for the first time gives mariners the means to find their longitude while at sea, using tables of lunar distances.
- 15 Mar 1767: Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) is born.
- 18 Jun 1767: Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 23 Aug 1767: Mannes Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 16 | 1768 | - 1768: The first of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica are published; 100 are planned.
- 7 Jan 1768: Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (d. 1844) is born.
- 9 Jan 1768: Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses (London).
- 8 Aug 1768: James Cook departs Plymouth on his first voyage of discovery.
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| 17 | 1769 | - 1769: Charles III of Spain sends Spanish missionaries, who found California missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Monterey and begin the settlement of California.
- 1769: James Watt demonstrates the first practical steam engine, an invention which inaugurates the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
- 1769: Famine in Bengal kills 10 million people, a third of the population, in the worst natural disaster in human history (in terms of lives lost).
- 19 May 1769: Pope Clement XIV succeeds Pope Clement XIII as the 249th pope.
- 15 Aug 1769: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821) is born.
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| 18 | 1770 | - 5 Mar 1770: Boston Massacre: Five Americans are shot by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
- Apr 1770: James Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 10 miles south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the bay, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, James Cook calls the place Botany Bay.
- 16 May 1770: Marie Antoinette (14 years old) marries Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).
- 15 Dec 1770: Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827) is born.
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| 19 | 1771 | - 14 May 1771: Thomas Wedgwood, son of potter Josiah Wedgwood (d. 1805) is born.
- 3 Aug 1771: King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840) is born.
- 8 Aug 1771: The first recorded town cricket match is played at Horsham; the Horsham Cricket Club is later formed.
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| 20 | 1772 | - 24 Jul 1772: Willem I, king of the Netherlands is born.
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| 21 | 1773 | - 10 Oct 1773: Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by American Indians in which his son is killed.
- 16 Dec 1773: Boston Tea Party: A group of Americans, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the British East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor.
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| 22 | 1774 | - 16 Mar 1774: Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814) is born.
- 3 Sep 1774: Willem François Boreel, Dutch soldier, is born
- 21 Sep 1774: George Mason and George Washington found the Fairfax County Militia Association, a military unit independent of British control.
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| 23 | 1775 | - 22 Jan 1775: André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836) is born.
- 19 Feb 1775: American Revolution: The Parliament of Great Britain declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
- 14 Jun 1775: The Continental Congress names George Washington as commander of the Continental Army.
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| 24 | 1776 | - 4 Jul 1776: The Continental Congress approves the final wording of the United States Declaration of Independence and arranges for it to be published.
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| 25 | 1777 | - 1777: The 2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
- 14 Jun 1777: The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.
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| 26 | 1778 | - 26 Nov 1778: In the Hawaiian Islands, Capt. James Cook becomes the first European to land on Maui.
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| 27 | 1779 | - 1779: The Iron Bridge is completed across the River Severn in Shropshire (the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed).
- 14 Feb 1779: Captain James Cook dies on the Sandwich Islands on his third and last voyage.
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| 28 | 1781 | - 1781: Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers tungsten
- 13 Mar 1781: Sir William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. Originally he calls it Georgium Sidus (George's Star) in honour of King George III of England.
- 9 Jun 1781: George Stephenson, English inventor of the Steam locomotieve is born..
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1710 - 1781 (71 years)
