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| 1769 |
| | | Captain Cook reaches New Zealand and sets off to chart its entire coastline | |
|  | Hodges Dusky Bay, New Zealand (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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| 1769 |
| | | French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle | |
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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| 1770 |
| | | British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston, Massachusetts, killing five | |
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| 1770 |
| | | 17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, later hailed as a significant poet, commits suicide in a London garret | |
|  | Thomas Chatterton, engraving after unknown artist, c.1768
National Portrait Gallery, London
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| 1770 |
| | | Captain Cook reaches the mainland of Australia, at a place which he names Botany Bay, and continues up the eastern coast | |
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| 1770 |
| | | In response to American protests, the British government removes the Townshend duties on all commodities with the exception of tea | |
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| 1770 |
| | | 27-year-old Thomas Jefferson begins constructing a mansion on a hilltop in Charlottesville, calling it Monticello ('little mountain') | |
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| 1771 |
| | | English entrepreneur Richard Arkwright adds water power to spinning by means of the water frame | |
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| 1771 |
| | | Richard Arkwright pioneers the factory environment with his cotton mill at Cromford in Derbyshire | |
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