1763 in Great Britain

1763 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1763 English cricket season

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)

Events

• 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]

Undated

• 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]

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.

Births

• 9 March – William Cobbett, journalist and author (died 1835)
• 16 March – Mary Berry, writer (died 1852)
• 16 August – Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (died 1827)
• 25 December – Bernard Hart, grandfather of Bret Harte, in London^[7]

Deaths

• 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)

References

See also