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| 1772 |
| | | Captain Cook sets off, in HMS Resolution, on his second voyage to the southern hemisphere | |
|  | Mourner's costume from Tahiti
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
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| 1772 |
| | | Haydn's Farewell Symphony gives a subtle hint to his employer at Esterházy that it is time for the musicians to return home | |
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| 1773 |
| | | English prison reformer John Howard is shocked into action by the conditions he sees in Bedford gaol | |
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| 1773 |
| | | The London brokers who meet to do business in Jonathan's coffee house decide to call themselves the Stock Exchange | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele isolates oxygen but does not immediately publish his achievement | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Samuel Johnson and James Boswell undertake a journey together to the western islands of Scotland | |
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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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