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| 1 | 1768 | - 1768: Great Britain - Grafton ministry. The Middlesex Election Crisis occurs.
- 1768: Great Britain - General election, reformer Wilkes elected as member for Middlesex amid scenes of jubilation; Royal Academy (painting) founded
- 1768: CA - Guy Carleton succeeds Murray as governor of Quebec.
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| 2 | 1769 | - 1769: Great Britain - James Watt patented a new type of steam engine with a separate condensing chamber and an air pump to bring steam into the chamber and equipped it with a simple 'governor' for safety: if the engine started to go too fast, the power would be automatically cut back. He coined the term horsepower and later loaned his name to the unit of power, or work done per unit of time
- 1769: Great Britain - Captain James Cook's first voyage to explore the Pacific begins
- 1769: Great Britain - Richard Arkwright develops the water-powered spinning frame
- 1769: US - The American colonies begin their westward expansion, settling Tennessee.
- 1769: CA - Prince Edward Island becomes a separate colony from Nova Scotia.
- 20 Apr 1769: US - Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa is killed by a Kaskaskia Indian in Illinois.
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| 4 | 1771 | - 1771: Great Britain - The Encyclopedia Britannica is first published
- 1771: Great Britain - Richard Arkwright builds the first spinning mill
- 1771: Captain James Cook completes his first voyage around the world.
- 1771: CA/UK - Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin of Nova Scotia travels to northern England to seek immigrants to replace those displaced by the Acadian expulsion.
- 17 Jul 1771: CA - Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
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| 5 | 1772 | - 1772: Great Britain - Lord Mansfield makes slavery illegal
- 1772: Great Britain - James Burgh publishes Political Disquisitions, advocates universal male suffrage
- 1772: CA - Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine River to Arctic Ocean.
- 1772: CA/US - James Cook and George Vancouver explore the northwest coast of America.
- 1772: CA - The Yorkshire emigration begins with the arrival of 62 passengers aboard The Duke of York.
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| 6 | 1773 | - 1773: British North America - Colonists protest at the East India Company's monopoly over tea exports to the colonies, at the so-called Boston Tea Party
- 1773: Coalbrookedale, England - The world's first Cast Iron bridge is constructed over the River Severn
- 1773: Great Britain - Benjamin Delessert was born. French industrialist who developed the first successful process to extract sugar from sugar beets.
- 1773: CA - Lord Dartmouth promises Canadians just and considerate treatment respecting their religion.
- Dec 1773: CA - Prominent French Canadians petition the King to restore their ancient laws and accord them the rights of British subjects, reminding him that five-sixths of the seigniories belong to Frenchmen. They represent that the Labrador Coast and fisheries, now alienated to Newfoundland, should revert to Canada. They prefer a Legislative Council, nominated by the King, because less expensive than an Elective Assembly.
- 16 Dec 1773: US - The Boston Tea Party protests the Tea Act
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