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Events. 19 January – John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton. [2] 5 April – Parliament passes the Sugar Act. [3] 19 April – the Currency Act passed which prohibits the American colonies from issuing paper currency of any form.
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 ...
4 January – Britain declares war on Spain and Naples. [2] February – 12 sperm whales strand on the east coast of England. [3] 10 March – Seven Years' War – Britain captures Grenada from France. [4] 20 March – debut performance of David Garrick's The Farmer's Return from London at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. [5] [6]
The Expulsion of the Acadians[b] was the forced removal [c] of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain. It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine.
The Anglo–Dutch Wars (Dutch: Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen) were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) in the mid-17th and late 18th century. The first three wars occurred in the second half of the 17th century over trade and overseas colonies, while the fourth was fought a century later.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, History of the formation of the United Kingdom and History of the United Kingdom
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. As in most of the rest of Northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until ...
12 July – George Grenville is dismissed as Prime Minister by King George III. [8] 13 July – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham succeeds Grenville as Prime Minister. [9] 7 August – armed mutiny at Maidstone County Gaol. [10] 12 August – Robert Clive secures the rights for the East India Company to collect taxes in ...