 1760 - Bef 1770 (9 years)
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| 1 | 1760 | - 1760: Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland
- 5 May 1760: First use of hangman's drop
- 25 Oct 1760: George II dies George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king. The date conventionally marks the start of the so-called "first Industrial Revolution"
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| 2 | 1761 | - 16 Jan 1761: British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
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| 3 | 1762 | - 1762: Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba
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| 4 | 1763 | - 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
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| 5 | 1764 | - 1764: Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
- 1764: Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
- 1764: James Hargeaves invents the Spinning Jenny (but destroyed 1768)
- 1764: Mozart produces his first symphony at age eight
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| 6 | 1765 | - 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American colonies (repealed the following year)
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| 7 | 1766 | - 1766: Start of 'composite' national records on rainfall in the UK
- 5 Dec 1766: Christie's auction house founded in London by James Christie
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| 8 | 1767 | - 1767: Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt
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| 9 | 1768 | - 9 Jan 1768: Philip Astley starts his circus in London
- 6 Dec 1768: The first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published in Edinburgh by
William Smellie
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| 10 | 1769 | - 1769: Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
- 1769: Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
- 6 Sep 1769: David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at Stratford-upon-Avon
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