1765 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1765 - Events. March 9 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Pa ...

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Some aspects of the resistance to the act provided a sort of rehearsal for the resistance to the Townshend Acts of 1767. In the American Revolution a decade later, the Committees of Correspondence reappeared on a more formal basis. The boycott also became more formalised, as the colonies entered into a Non Importation Agreement in 1774. While the Sons of Liberty faded after the repeal, they were never again entirely absent. The ability of the colonies to act in concert ...

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The Most Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, PC (May 13, 1730 – July 1, 1782) was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain. He served in only two high offices during his lifetime (Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Lords), but was nonetheless very influential during his one and a half years of service. A descendant of Thomas Wentworth, Charles was brought up at the family home of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire. H ...

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The American colonists didn't view the act as equitable at all. To be admitted to the bar or enrolled as a notary one would pay a tax of £10 in America, but only £2 in Britain. The tax on newspapers raised considerable opposition, especially from the newspapers themselves. The tax was also hard on lawyers and those who worked in the courts, because they had to print documents quite a bit and to have to pay a tax on the papers being printed would become very tedious and it could add up and become expensive, depending on how many documents y ...

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See main article: Stamp Act Congress The Stamp Act Congress can be seen in hindsight as an opening move in the American Revolution. Nine colonies were represented by twenty-seven delegates determined to draw up a petition of rights and grievances, which would then be presented to Parliament. The actual petition, called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, was drawn up by John Dickinson of Pennsylvania. Its wording has ominous significance. The basic argument was that the colonists owed the same allegiance to King and Parli ...

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States of America. Massachusetts - Name. Massachusetts - Mass-adchu-et. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was named after the indigenous population, the Massachusett, whose name can be segmented as mass-adchu-et, where mass is "great", adchu is "hill" and et is a locative suffix. It has been translated as "at the great hill," "at the place of large hills," or "at the range ...

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In 1760, King George III ascended the throne, with his brother the Duke of York as heir presumptive. However, the new King soon married and had several children. By 1765, the King had three infant children in the order of succession. Parliament again passed a Regency Act to provide for a regent in the event of the King's death. The Minority of Heir to the Crown Act 1765 (5 Geo 3 c 27) 2 provided that either the King's wife Queen Charlotte or his mother, Princess Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales would act a ...

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1688 - Births. January 18 - Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772) February 2 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741) February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (d. 1763) April 4 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) April 15 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758) May 22 - Alexande ...

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The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the Sons of Liberty against the British East India Company in which they destroyed many crates of tea on ships in Boston Harbor. The incident, which took place on 16 December 1773, has been seen as helping to spark the American Revolution. Boston Tea Party - Background. The Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767 angered colonists regarding British decisions on taxing the colonies with no representation in the Westminster Parliament ("no taxation without repres ...

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Charlemont is a town located in Franklin County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,358. Charlemont Massachusetts - History. Charlemont was first settled in 1742 and was officially incorporated in 1765. Charlemont Massachusetts - Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 68.3 km² (26.4 mi²). 67.6 km² (26.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. The total are ...

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Carl Alexander Clerck (1709-22 July 1765) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist. Clerck came from a family in the petty nobility and entered the University of Uppsala in 1726. Little is known of his studies; although a contemporary of Linnaeus, it is unknown whether he had any contact with him during his time in Uppsala. His limited means forced him to leave university early and enter into government service, later endin ...

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The Commentaries on the Laws of England is an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. It was in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law, suitable for a lay readership, since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England, relyin ...

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William Small (1734-1775) was a British physician and a member of the Lunar Society. He was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, the son of a Presbyterian minister. He attended Marischal College, Aberdeen and was awarded his M.D. in 1765. In 1758, he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, then one of Britain’s American colonies. Small is known for being Thomas Jefferson's professor at William and Mary and for having an influence on the young Jefferson. Recalling his year ...

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William Stukeley (November 7, 1687–March 3, 1765) was an English antiquary who pioneered the archaeological investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury. He was born at Holbeach in Lincolnshire, the son of a lawyer. After taking his M.B. degree at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he went to London and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital. In 1710 he started in practice in Lincolnshire, removing in 1717 to London. In the same year he became a fellow of the Royal Society, and, in 1718, joined in the establishment of the Societ ...

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The Villa of the Papyri is an enormous private house of ancient Herculaneum owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, and first excavated in 1765 by Karl Weber. Its name derives from the discovery of a library in the house containing 1,800 carbonized papyrus scrolls. The 800 feet (245 m) long seaside villa sited a few hundred metres from the nearest house in Herculaneum had four levels disposed in a series of terraces on the sloping site and was the most luxurious house in all of Herculaneum and ...

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Sir William Blackstone, (July 10, 1723 – February 14, 1780) was an English jurist and professor who produced the historical treatise on the common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in four volumes over 1765–1769. It had an extraordinary success, said to have brought the author £14,000, and still remains the best general history of the subject. Blackstone was the posthumous son of a silk mercer in London, and received his education at Charterhouse School and at Pembroke College, Oxford. ...

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Alexis Claude Clairault (or Clairaut) (May 3, 1713 – May 17, 1765) was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris, France, where his father taught mathematics. He was a prodigy - at the age of twelve he wrote a memoir on four geometrical curves and under his father's tuition he made such rapid progress in the subject that in his thirteenth year he read before the Académie française an account of the properties of four curves which he had discovered. When only sixteen he finished a treatise on tortuous curves, Re ...

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Anders Chydenius (26 February 1729 – 1 February 1803) was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. A Finnish priest and a member of parliament, he published a book called The National Gain in 1765, in which he proposes ideas of free trade and industry and explores the relationship between economy and society and lays out the principles for both, liberalism and capitalism, as well as the modern democracy. In the book Chydenius published his theories closely corresponding to Adam Smith's invisible hand, eleven years before ...

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Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions, the book from which Jean-Jacques Rousseau took the title for his own book. Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765, it was completed ...

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