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   Date  Event(s)
1 1761 
  • 16 Jan 1761: British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
2 1762 
  • Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba
3 1763 
  • Treaty of Paris - gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain - (Newfoundland [fishing], Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar], Dakar [gum]) - but English displaces French as the international language
4 1764 
  • Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
  • Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
  • James Hargeaves invents the Spinning Jenny (but destroyed 1768)
  • Mozart produces his first symphony at age eight
5 1765 
  • The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe
  • 22 Mar 1765: Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies (repealed the following year)
  

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