1763 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1763 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

Monarch - George III
Prime Minister - Earl of Bute (Tory) (until 8 April), George Grenville (Whig) (starting 8 April)

10 February - Seven Years' War/French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.^[1]
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.^[2]
9 May - Pontiac's Rebellion begins when Chief Pontiac leads an attack on the British garrison at Fort Detroit.
16 May - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London.
2 June - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now 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.^[2]^[3]
2 August - Mir Qasim routed at Odwa Nala.^[2]^[3]
5 August - Pontiac's Rebellion: 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 — criticising George III's speech in praise of the Treaty of Paris — is a seditious libel.^[2]
24 November - Thomas Bayes's theorem is first announced (posthumously).^[4]

Josiah Wedgwood receives orders for his pottery from Queen Charlotte. He names his range of pottery "Queen's Ware" after her.^[5]
Rhododendron ponticum introduced to Britain from the Iberian Peninsula.^[6]

John Barrow's A New and Impartial History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Signing of Preliminaries of Peace, 1762.

2 January - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (born 1690)
11 February - William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
3 May - George Psalmanazar, imposter (born c. 1679)
16 August - Francis Ayscough, clerk of the Closet, courtier and dean of Bristol (born 1701)
21 August - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, statesman (born 1710)
26 September - John Byrom, poet (born 1692)

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 3 4 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 322. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
1 2 "Murshidabad". Retrieved 2012-02-29.
↑ A Letter from the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S. (PDF)
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
↑ Coats, Alice M. Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992. s.v. "Rhododendron".
↑ Merwin, Henry (1911). The Life of Bret Harte. Houghton Mifflin. p. 4.