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e. The Sugar Act 1764 or Sugar Act 1763, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764. [1] The preamble to the act stated: "it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this ...
1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1764th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 764th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1764, the ...
James Smith (November 26, 1737 – April 11, 1813 [1]) was a frontiersman, farmer and soldier in British North America. In 1765, he led the "Black Boys", a group of Pennsylvania men, in a nine-month rebellion against British rule ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. He participated in the Revolutionary War as a ...
Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American Founding Father, [1][2][3] merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as its president.
Enoch Brown school massacre. On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania and killed the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and ten students. One other student named Archie McCullough was wounded. [1] The massacre is the first school shooting recorded in U.S. history. [2]
13 April – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830) 26 April – Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853) 3 May – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794) [5] 13 August – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813) 7 December Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d ...
Kinds of Kindness is a 2024 absurdist anthology film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay he co-wrote with Efthimis Filippou. [5] [6] It stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.
It's My Party is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Randal Kleiser. It was one of the first feature films to address the topic of AIDS patients dying with dignity. [2] [3] The film is based on the true events of the death of Harry Stein, accomplished architect and designer, who was actually director Kleiser's ex-lover. Stein's ...