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  Britain 1750-1900
 Grand Tourists in Italy c. 1720
 
 Ships of the line c. 1750
 
 Horace Walpole begins Strawberry Hill 1750 Strawberry Hill
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 Siege of Arcot 1751
 
 British robbed of eleven days 1752
 
 Smellie breakthrough for midwives 1752
 
 French evict English from Ohio 1752
 
 John Wood's Circus launches Georgian Bath 1754
 
 Black finds fixed air 1754
 
 British troops in America 1755
 
 Johnson defines English 1755
 
 Capability Brown provides a cascade to enliven the gardens at Sherborne c. 1755 The cascade
Sherborne Castle
 
 Black Hole of Calcutta 1756
 
 Montcalm sorts out British 1756
 
 Byng shot in Portsmouth harbour 1757
 
 Clive interferes in Bengal 1757
 
 Robert Adam back from Rome 1757
 
 Elder Pitt in charge of war 1757
 
 Chambers to provide follies for Kew Gardens 1757 George III at Kew, coloured engraving 1787
Richmond Local Studies
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 Reynolds fashionable in London c. 1758
 
 Comet proves Halley right 1758
 
 Gainsborough moves to Bath c. 1759
 
 Wedgwood sets up on his own 1759
 
 Tristram Shandy conceived 1759
 
 Wolfe takes Quebec 1759
 
 Heart of oak in Quiberon Bay 1759
 
 British find this a wonderful year 1759
 
The Derby factory selects a Jewish subject c. 1760 Jewish pedlars, Derby porcelain, c.1760
Jewish Museum, London
 
 Cricket on Broadhalfpenny Down c. 1760
 
 George III is king 1760
 
 Black sees heat in ice 1761
 
 Harrison's chronometer is accurate 1761 Tassaert John Harrison (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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 England has its own Bach 1762
 
 Fingal a forgery 1762
 
 French north America now British 1763
 
 Wilkes arrested for seditious libel 1763 Teapot and mug in support of Wilkes
People's History Museum, Manchester