1765 - 1770 (4 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1700 | - 1700—1799:
SA - VOC slave trading in Mozambique; Zanzibar and Madagascar
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| 2 | 1765 | - 1765—1765:
The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe
- 22 Mar 1765—22 Mar 1765:
Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the
American colonies (repealed the following year)
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| 3 | 1766 | - 1766—1766:
Start of 'composite' national records on rainfall in the UK
- 5 Dec 1766—5 Dec 1766:
Christie's auction house founded in London by James Christie
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| 4 | 1767 | - 1767—1767:
Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt
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| 5 | 1768 | - 9 Jan 1768—9 Jan 1768:
Philip Astley starts his circus in London
- 6 Dec 1768—6 Dec 1768:
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica' published in Edinburgh by
William Smellie
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| 6 | 1769 | - 1769—1769:
Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
- 1769—1769:
Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
- 6 Sep 1769—6 Sep 1769:
David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at Stratford-upon-Avon
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| 7 | 1770 | - 1770—1770:
Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major
thoroughfare for maritime communications
- 1770—1799:
SA - Intensive Khoisan resistance to Trekboer occupation
- 28 Apr 1770—28 Apr 1770:
Capt James Cook lands in Australia (Botany Bay) ? Aug 21: formally claims
Australia for Britain
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