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| 1757 |
| | | William Pitt the Elder becomes secretary of state and transforms the British war effort against France in America | |
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| 1759 |
| | | British general James Wolfe sails up the St Lawrence river with 15,000 men to besiege Quebec | |
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| 1759 |
| | | Wolfe defeats Montcalm and captures Quebec, but both commanders die in the engagement | |
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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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| 1764 |
| | | A French expedition from St Malo, founding a colony on East Falkland, name the islands Les Îsles Malouines | |
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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 |
| | | English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| 1765 |
| | | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1767 |
| | | The British Chancellor, Charles Townshend, passes a series of acts taxing all glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into the American colonies | |
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