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| 1773 |
| | | Some fifty colonists, disguised as Indians, tip a valuable cargo of tea into Boston harbour as a protest against British tax | |
|  | Satirical response to British tea in America
National Archives, Kew
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| 1773 |
| | | Responding to pressure from the Catholic monarchs of Europe, Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit Order | |
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| 1774 |
| | | As a retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, the British parliament closes Boston's port with the first of its Coercive Acts | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, brings him an immediate European reputation | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Britain's new Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts include the requirement that Massachusetts citizens give board and lodging to British troops | |
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| 1774 |
| | | The Spanish, now in sole occupation of the Falkland Islands, call them Las Islas Malvinas | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Encouraged by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia | |
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| 1774 |
| | | In the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, ending the recent Russo-Turkish war, the Ottoman empire cedes the Crimea to Russia | |
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| 1774 |
| | | The treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji grants Russia special rights in relation to the Christian Holy Places under Ottoman control | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Illiterate visionary Ann Lee, leader of an English sect, the 'Shaking Quakers', crosses the Atlantic to spread the word | |
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| 1774 |
| | | English chemist Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen, but he believes it to be 'dephlogisticated air' | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Delegates from twelve American colonies meet in Philadelphia and agree not to import any goods from Britain | |
|  | Signatures on the petition of the Continental Congress
National Archives, Kew
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| 1774 |
| | | Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London | |
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| c. 1775 |
| | | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Pioneer Daniel Boone and other backwoodsmen cut the road west that will bring settlers to Kentucky | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Patrick Henry makes a stirring declaration – 'Give me liberty or give me death' – to the Virginia Assembly | |
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| 1775 |
| | | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
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| 1775 |
| | | General Gage sends a detachment of British troops to seize weapons held by American Patriots at Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Paul Revere is one of the US riders taking an urgent warning to Concord, but he is captured on the journey | |
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| 1775 |
| | | The first shot of the American Revolution is fired in a skirmish between redcoats and militiamen at Lexington, on the road to Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates from the states reassemble in Philadelphia, with hostilities against the British already under way in Massachusetts | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates in Philadelphia select George Washington as commander-in-chief of the colonial army | |
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| 1775 |
| | | At Bunker Hill, overlooking Boston from the north, the American militiamen prove their worth against British professional soldiers | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates to the Continental Congress make a final bid for peace, sending the Olive Branch Petition to George III | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Britain declares the colonies to be in a state of rebellion, and sets up a naval blockade of the American coastline | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Yankee Doodle is the most popular song with the patriot troops in the American Revolution | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Talleyrand begins an extremely varied career by becoming an abbot at the age of twenty-one | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Captain Cook publishes his discovery of a preventive cure against scurvy, in the form of a regular ration of lemon juice | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Francisco de Goya begins a series of designs for tapestries to be made in Spain's Royal Tapestry Factory | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag, the British red ensign on a ground of thirteen stripes – one for each colony | |
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| 1776 |
| | | In Common Sense, an anonymous pamphlet, English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution | |
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