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| 1763 |
| | | English journalist John Wilkes is arrested for publishing seditious libel in issue no 45 of his weekly magazine The North Briton | |
|  | Teapot and mug in support of Wilkes
People's History Museum, Manchester
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| 1764 |
| | | Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America | |
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| 1765 |
| | | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance 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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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| 1770 |
| | | In response to American protests, the British government removes the Townshend duties on all commodities with the exception of tea | |
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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 |
| | | Encouraged by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia | |
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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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