1764
It seems that this random date may hold greater significance than I expected. But some of you from the USA may be able to tell me that before I begin!
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act were passed in the British parliament, affecting the colonies on the American continent. It seems that this began or heightened the concern over 'taxation without representation'.
John Wilkes was thrown out of the British House of Commons for seditious libel according to Wikipedia, and for 'Essay on Women' according to HistoryOrb - although these appear to be the same thing, with Wikipedia calling it 'Essay on Woman', and it appears to have humiliated and angered his opponents, especially John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Less political events of the year:
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act were passed in the British parliament, affecting the colonies on the American continent. It seems that this began or heightened the concern over 'taxation without representation'.
John Wilkes was thrown out of the British House of Commons for seditious libel according to Wikipedia, and for 'Essay on Women' according to HistoryOrb - although these appear to be the same thing, with Wikipedia calling it 'Essay on Woman', and it appears to have humiliated and angered his opponents, especially John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Less political events of the year:
- a level 5 tornado hit Woldegk in Germany on the 29th of June
- Immanuel Kant published Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
- Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, "a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto", apparently the first Gothic novel
- Gov Winthrop Telescope destroyed in a fire in Harvard
- Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France
- Tsar Ivan VI, murdered in prison
- Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar
- Jean-Marie Leclair, French composer and violinist, murdered
- Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal
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