1763 in Great Britain
Great Britain-related events during the year of 1763
Events from the year 1763 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
George Grenville
Events
10 February – Seven Years' War /French and Indian War : The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.[2]
1 March – Charles Townshend becomes President of the Board of Trade in the British government .
May – George Grenville becomes Prime Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Bute ;[3] he continues to push through Bute's unpopular Cider Bill to impose a tax on the drink.
7 May – Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French, Pontiac , chief of the Odawa people, begins "Pontiac's War " by attacking the British garrison at Fort Detroit . Although he fails to succeed by surprise on this occasion,[4] two days later he begins the Siege of Fort Detroit .
16 May – James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies 's bookshop in London .
2 June – Pontiac's War: At what becomes Mackinaw City, Michigan , Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse , then chasing a ball into the fort.
7 July – the British East India Company declare Mir Qasim , the Nawab of Bengal , to be deposed.[3]
2 August – Mir Qasim routed at Odwa Nala.[3]
5 August – Pontiac's War: at the Battle of Bushy Run , British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat American Indians in the Pennsylvania backcountry.
7 October – Royal Proclamation of 1763 is made by George III , regulating westward expansion of British North America and stabilizing relations with indigenous peoples of the Americas .
November – Parliament decides that John Wilkes ' article in The North Briton no. 45 of 23 April — criticising George III's April speech in praise of the Treaty of Paris — is a seditious libel .[3]
24 November – Thomas Bayes 's theorem is first announced (posthumously).[5]
Undated
Publications
John Barrow 's A New and Impartial History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Signing of Preliminaries of Peace, 1762 .
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