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| 1764 |
| | | Joseph Haydn's first published work is six string quartets, a form which he subsequently makes very much his own | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Lancashire spinner James Hargreaves conceives the idea of the spinning jenny, with multiple spindles worked from a single wheel | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel Castle of Otranto | |
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| 1765 |
| | | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1765 |
| | | American campaigners against the Stamp Act organize themselves as the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts and New York | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies | |
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| 1766 |
| | | English chemist Henry Cavendish isolates hydrogen but believes that it is phlogiston | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Irish novelist Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield, with a hero who has much to complain about but keeps calm | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Pierre le Roy's chronometer, as accurate as Harrison's and cheaper to construct, is set to become the standard model | |
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