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[[File:New Map of North America (1763).JPG|thumb|right|[[February 10]]: The [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]] is signed.]]
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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
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* [[January 27]] &ndash; The seat of colonial administration in the [[Viceroyalty of Brazil]] is moved from [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]] to [[Rio de Janeiro]].
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* [[February 1]] &ndash; The [[Royal Colony of North Carolina]] officially creates [[Mecklenburg County, North Carolina|Mecklenburg County]] from the western portion of [[Anson County, North Carolina|Anson County]]. The county is named for Queen [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], who married [[George III of the United Kingdom]] in [[1761]].
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* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: The [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]] ends the war, and France cedes [[Canada (New France)]] to Great Britain.<ref>Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0}</ref>
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* [[February 15]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Hubertusburg]] puts an end to the [[Seven Years' War]] between [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] and [[Habsburg Monarchy|Austria]], and their allies France and Russia.
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* [[February 23]] &ndash; The [[Berbice Slave Uprising]] starts in the former [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] colony of [[Berbice]].
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* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Charles Townshend]] becomes [[President of the Board of Trade]] in the British government.
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=== April&ndash;June ===
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* [[April 6]] &ndash; The [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]], home to the [[Paris Opera]] for almost 90 years, is destroyed in an accidental fire.<ref>Pannill Camp, ''The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014)  p148</ref>
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* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[George Grenville]] takes office as the new [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]], after the [[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute|Earl of Bute]] resigns amid criticism over Britain's concessions in the Treaty of Paris.<ref>Richard Archer, ''As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) p1</ref>
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* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Marie-Josephte Corriveau]] is hanged near her home at [[Saint-Vallier, Quebec]], then placed on public display ([[gibbeting]]) on orders of a British court of officers that had tried her under [[martial law]] for the murder of her husband.<ref>F. Murray Greenwood and Beverley Boissery, ''Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953'' (Dundurn, 2000) p54</ref>  She becomes famous in French Quebecois folklore as "la Corriveau".
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* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Teedyuscung]], known as the "King of the Delaware Indians" (the [[Lenape]] tribe) is assassinated by arsonists who burn down his home in [[Pennsylvania]] while he is sleeping, in an apparent retaliation for signing the [[Treaty of Easton]] to relinquish Lenape claims to the Province of New Jersey.<ref>Kevin Kenny, ''Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment'' (Oxford University Press, 2011) p116</ref>
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* [[April 23]] &ndash; The controversial Issue 45 of [[John Wilkes]]'s satirical newspaper ''[[The North Briton]]'' is published as a response to a speech four days earlier by King George III praising the end of the Seven Years' War.<ref>Amelia Rauser, ''Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-century English Prints'' (University of Delaware Press, 2008) p51</ref>  In what will become a test case for [[freedom of speech]], Wilkes, a member of Parliament, is arrested for [[libel]] of the King and imprisoned, then exiled to France.
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* [[April 27]] &ndash; Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French, [[Pontiac (Ottawa leader)|Pontiac]], chief of the [[Odawa]] people, convenes a conference near [[Detroit]] and convinces the leaders of 17 other nations of the need to attack British outposts.<ref name=Dunn>Walter S. Dunn, ''People of the American Frontier: The Coming of the American Revolution'' (Greenwood, 2005) p37</ref>
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* [[May 7]] &ndash; Chief Pontiac begins "[[Pontiac's War]]" by attacking the British garrison at [[Fort Detroit]], but the surprise attack is given away by a young native girl who informs the British of the plan.<ref name=Dunn/> Two days later he begins the [[Siege of Fort Detroit]].
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* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's War]]: At what becomes [[Mackinaw City, Michigan]], [[Chippewa]]s capture [[Fort Michilimackinac]] by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of [[lacrosse]], then chasing a ball into the fort.
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=== July&ndash;September ===
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* [[July 7]] &ndash; The [[British East India Company]] declares [[Mir Qasim]], the [[Nawab of Bengal]], to be deposed.<ref>https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/322 322</ref>
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* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Mir Qasim]] is routed at Odwa Nala. He flees to [[Patna]], where he massacres the English garrison,{{cn|date=June 2020}} but is subsequently defeated at [[Katwa]], [[Murshidabad]], [[Giria, India|Giria]], Sooty, Udayanala and [[Munger]].
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* [[August 3]] and 4 &ndash; The spectacular bankruptcies of [[Leendert Pieter de Neufville]] and [[Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky]] lead to a [[financial contagion]] and affected in the days after many merchants in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Stockholm.
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* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bushy Run]]: British forces led by [[Henry Bouquet]] defeat [[Chief Pontiac]]'s Indians at [[Bushy Run]], in the [[Pennsylvania]] backcountry.
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* [[August]] &ndash; Fire in [[Smyrna]], [[Ottoman Empire]], destroys 2,600 houses.
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* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Catherine II of Russia]] endorses [[Ivan Betskoy]]'s plans for a [[Foundling Home in Moscow]].
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=== October&ndash;December ===
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* [[October 7]] &ndash; The ''[[Royal Proclamation of 1763]]'' is issued by [[George III of the United Kingdom]], restricting the westward expansion of [[British North America]], and stabilizing relations with the [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]], by barring white settlement of lands west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]].
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* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Bayes' theorem]] is first announced.<ref>http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/letter.pdf</ref>
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* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Touro Synagogue]], [[Newport, Rhode Island]], is dedicated; by the end of the 20th century, this will be the [[Oldest synagogues in the United States|oldest]] surviving [[synagogue]] in North America.
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* [[December 14]] &ndash; The [[Paxton Boys]] massacre six [[Susquehannock|Conestoga]] Indians in their homes in [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]]. When the 16 survivors are sheltered in the Lancaster workhouse (jail), the Paxton Boys ride into town and kill them as well, on [[December 27]].
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=== Date unknown ===
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* [[Little Hagia Sophia]] in [[Istanbul]], Ottoman Empire, is damaged in an [[earthquake]].
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* [[Joseph Haydn]] writes his [[Symphony No. 13 (Haydn)|Symphony No. 13]].
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* The [[Russo-Circassian War]] begins, when the [[Russian Empire]] attempts to annex [[Circassia]].
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== Births ==
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* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Edmond-Charles Genêt]], French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (d. [[1834]])
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* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron]], Russian general (d. [[1831]])
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[[File:Charles XIV John as Crown Prince of Sweden - François Gérard.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles XIV John of Sweden|Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte]]]]
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* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Charles XIV John of Sweden|Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte]], [[Marshal of France]], King Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Charles III John of Norway (d. [[1844]])
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* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Jean Victor Marie Moreau]], French general (d. [[1813]])
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* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Adalbert Gyrowetz]], Bohemian composer (d. [[1850]])
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* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[William Cobbett]], English journalist, author (d. [[1835]])
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* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune]], Marshal of France (d. [[1815]])
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* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Jean Paul]], German writer (d. [[1825]])
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* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Józef Antoni Poniatowski]], Polish prince, Marshal of France (d. [[1813]])
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* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Theobald Wolfe Tone]], Irish patriot (d. [[1798]])
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[[File:Joséphine de Beauharnais by François Gérard 3.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Empress Joséphine]]]]
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* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Joséphine de Beauharnais]], Empress of France (d. [[1814]])
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* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[John Jacob Astor]], German-born American entrepreneur (d. [[1848]])
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* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Bill Richmond]], British boxer (d. [[1829]])
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* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Christoph Johann von Medem]], German courtier (d. [[1838]])
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* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany]], second son of George III
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* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Dmitry Senyavin]], Russian admiral (d. [[1831]])
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* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Caroline Schelling]], German scholar, intellectual (d. [[1809]])
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* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Claude Chappe]], French telecommunication pioneer (d. [[1805]])
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* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[John Molson]], Canadian entrepreneur (d. [[1836]])
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* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Charles Villeneuve]], French admiral (d. [[1806]])
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*[[Huang Peilie]], Chinese [[bibliophile]] (d. [[1825]])<ref>{http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11384/ </ref>
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== Deaths ==
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[[File:John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville by William Hoare.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville]]]]
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* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville]], English statesman (b. [[1690]])
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* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Caspar Abel]], German theologian, historian, and poet (b. [[1676]])
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* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Louis Racine]], French poet (b. [[1692]])
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* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[William Shenstone]], English poet (b. [[1714]])
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* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Marivaux]], French writer (b. [[1688]])
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* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]] (b. [[1711]])
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* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Antoine Walsh]], Irish-French slave trader and Jacobite (b. [[1703]])
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* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Johan Hörner]], Danish artist (b. [[1711]])
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* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie]], Swedish countess (b. [[1723]]) 
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* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Abraham Darby II]], English ironmaster (b. [[1711]])
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* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Koca Ragıp Pasha]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman (Turkish)]] [[Grand Vizier]] (b. [[1698]])
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* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave]] of Great Britain (b. [[1715]])
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* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Jared Eliot]], Connecticut farmer, writer on horticulture (b. [[1685]])
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* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[George Psalmanazar]], British impostor (b. c. [[1679]])
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* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht]], Swedish writer  (b. [[1718]])
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* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Somis]], Italian violinist and composer (b. [[1686]])
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* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont]], British statesman (b. [[1710]])
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* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Gabriela Silang]], Filipino rebel leader, heroine (b. [[1731]])
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* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[John Byrom]], English poet (b. [[1692]])
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* [[October]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria Garthwaite]], British designer (b. [[1688]])
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* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Augustus III of Poland|Augustus]], [[List of rulers of Saxony#Electors of Saxony|Elector of Saxony]], [[King of Poland]] and [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]] (b. [[1696]])
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* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Heinrich von Brühl]], German statesman (b. [[1700]])
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* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Joseph Dupleix]] &ndash; French governor general at [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondichéry]]
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* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff]], German soldier (b. [[1673]])
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* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Naungdawgyi]], [[Burma|Burmese]] king (b. [[1734]])
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* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Carl August Thielo]], Danish composer (b. [[1702]])
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* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony]] (b. [[1722]])
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* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Antoine François Prévost]], French writer (b. [[1697]])
 
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Year 1763

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Births

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A Birth

TitleBornDiedSummaryDescription
John Jacob Astor17 July 176329 March 1848Businessperson
Millionaire
The first multi-millionaire in the US
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Reverences

  1. Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0}
  2. Pannill Camp, The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p148
  3. Richard Archer, As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2010) p1
  4. F. Murray Greenwood and Beverley Boissery, Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953 (Dundurn, 2000) p54
  5. Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2011) p116
  6. Amelia Rauser, Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-century English Prints (University of Delaware Press, 2008) p51
  7. a b Walter S. Dunn, People of the American Frontier: The Coming of the American Revolution (Greenwood, 2005) p37
  8. https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/322 322
  9. http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/letter.pdf
  10. {http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11384/