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| 1762 |
| | | Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, moves to London and becomes known as the English Bach | |
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| 1762 |
| | | Two books in this year, Émile and Du Contrat Social, prompt orders for the arrest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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| 1762 |
| | | The intensely dramatic music of Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice introduces a much needed reform in the conventions of opera | |
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| 1762 |
| | | Fingal, supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James MacPherson | |
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| 1762 |
| | | 6-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plays for the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa | |
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| 1763 |
| | | The capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil is moved from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro | |
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| 1763 |
| | | A treaty signed in Paris ends the Seven Years' War between Britain, France and Spain | |
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| 1763 |
| | | In the treaty of Paris France cedes to Britain all its territory north of the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi river, except the district of New Orleans | |
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| 1763 |
| | | In the treaty of Paris, Spain cedes Florida to Britain, completing British possession of the entire east coast of north America | |
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| 1763 |
| | | The Treaty of Hubertusburg, between Prussia and Austria, increases the power of Prussia among the many separate states of Germany | |
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| 1763 |
| | | English journalist John Wilkes is arrested for publishing seditious libel in issue no 45 of his weekly magazine The North Briton | |
|  | Teapot and mug in support of Wilkes
People's History Museum, Manchester
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| 1763 |
| | | James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time, in the London bookshop of Thomas Davies | |
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| 1763 |
| | | Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, leads an uprising of the Indian tribes in an attempt to drive the British east of the Appalachians | |
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| 1763 |
| | | 7-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins a three-year concert tour of Europe | |
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| 1763 |
| | | American artist Benjamin West settles in London, where he becomes famous for his large-scale history scenes | |
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| 1764 |
| | | A French expedition from St Malo, founding a colony on East Falkland, name the islands Les Îsles Malouines | |
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| 1764 |
| | | The Russian empress Catherine the Great secures the throne of Poland for one of her lovers, as Stanislaw II | |
|  | Portrait of Stanislaw II, c.1780
Dulwich Picture Gallery
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| 1764 |
| | | James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Catherine the Great founds the Hermitage as a court museum attached to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America | |
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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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