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| 1 | 1754 | - 1754: Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
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| 2 | 1756 | - 1756: The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
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| 3 | 1757 | - 1757: India: The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassy - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive - The foundation laid for the Empire of India
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| 4 | 1758 | - 1758: India stops being merely a commercial venture - England begins dominating it politically - The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade
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| 5 | 1759 | - 1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
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| 6 | 1760 | - 1760: George III King of England 1760 - 1820
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| 7 | 1762 | - 1762: France surrenders Canada and Florida
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| 8 | 1763 | - 1763: Treaty of Paris of 1763 - In a nutshell, Britain emerged as the world?s leading colonial empire. Her possessions stretched from India to Africa to the West Indies to North America. The British shocked knowledgeable people of the day by choosing to take the barren wasteland of Canada from France, rather than the prosperous West Indian sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.North America.
Received Canada from France - Received Florida from Spain - Ceded recently taken Guadeloupe and Martinique back to France - Ceded recently taken Cuba and the Philippines to Spain - Received Grenada and the Grenadines from France - Received extensive Indian rights from France - Received Senegal from France - Received Minorca from France and Spain
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| 9 | 1767 | - 1767: First iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt - First one installed at Tipton
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| 10 | 1769 | - 1769: Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
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| 11 | 1770 | - 1770: Boston Massacre - On March 5th crowds protesting against the presence of British soldiers are fired upon.
- 1770: Hargreaves's jenny invented (textile production)
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| 12 | 1772 | - 1772: Judge Lord Mansfield rules in the case of James Somerset a negro that there is no legal basis for slavery in England.
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| 13 | 1773 | - 1773: The Boston Tea Party - American Colonists protest at excise duties.
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| 14 | 1775 | - 1775: American rebel forces enter Canada and capture Montreal
- 1775: Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775-1783)
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| 15 | 1776 | - 1776: Canada : As a result of the American Revolution, 1,124 people from New England arrived in Halifax in the first wave of United Empire Loyalists. In total, about 40,000 Americans remain loyal to Britain and flee north, to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the St. Lawrence Valley, and the lands bordering the Great Lakes. These include a large number of Black Loyalists ie Slaves who escaped and served in the British Forces
- 1776: British forces capture New York
- 1776: American Declaration of Independence
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| 16 | 1777 | - 1777: British Forces capture Philadelphia but surrender at Saratoga
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| 17 | 1778 | - 1778: France hoping for to take advantage of British problems in North America declare war.
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1754 - 1778 (23 years)