John Blish1762 through 1786
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1754-1763 French-Indian war
1756-1763 Seven years war
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1765 Steam Engine
1765 HMS Victory launched
1769 San Francisco bay discovered
1770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob
1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook
1772 Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England
1773 Boston Tea Party
1774 1st Continental Congress meets
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British
1775-1782 British war in India
1776 Declaration of Independence
1778 Congress forbids import of slaves into America
1778 France joins war against Britain
1780 Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity
1781 Uranus discovered
1783 1st working hot air balloon
1784 Thomas Jeffersons proposal to ban slavery defeated
1786 The Dollar is adopted
1786 First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany)
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