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Events relating to england
Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth, in England, heading for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Royal Academy is established in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first president
The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves
17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, later hailed as a significant poet, commits suicide in a London garret
In response to American protests, the British government removes the Townshend duties on all commodities with the exception of tea
English entrepreneur Richard Arkwright adds water power to spinning by means of the water frame
Richard Arkwright pioneers the factory environment with his cotton mill at Cromford in Derbyshire
Captain Cook sets off, in HMS Resolution, on his second voyage to the southern hemisphere
English prison reformer John Howard is shocked into action by the conditions he sees in Bedford gaol
The London brokers who meet to do business in Jonathan's coffee house decide to call themselves the Stock Exchange
Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell undertake a journey together to the western islands of Scotland
Britain's new Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts include the requirement that Massachusetts citizens give board and lodging to British troops
Encouraged by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia
Illiterate visionary Ann Lee, leader of an English sect, the 'Shaking Quakers', crosses the Atlantic to spread the word
English chemist Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen, but he believes it to be 'dephlogisticated air'
Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London
John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London
Captain Cook publishes his discovery of a preventive cure against scurvy, in the form of a regular ration of lemon juice
Two Boulton and Watt engines are installed, the first of many in the mines and mills of England's developing industrial revolution
English historian Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Scottish economist Adam Smith analyzes the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre
France, joining the American colonies in their fight against Britain, sends a large fleet across the Atlantic
