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February 10 : The
Treaty of Paris is signed.
1763 (
MDCCLXIII ) was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1763rd year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 763rd year of the
2nd millennium , the 63rd year of the
18th century , and the 4th year of the
1760s decade. As of the start of 1763, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
April–June
April 6 – The
Théâtre du Palais-Royal , home to the
Paris Opera for almost 90 years, is destroyed in an accidental fire.
[2]
April 16 –
George Grenville takes office as the new
Prime Minister of Great Britain , after the
Earl of Bute resigns amid criticism over Britain's concessions in the Treaty of Paris.
[3]
April 18 –
Marie-Josephte Corriveau is hanged near her home at
Saint-Vallier, Quebec before being
gibbeted after being found guilty by a military tribunal of twelve officers of murdering her husband.
[4] She becomes famous in
French Canadian folklore as "la Corriveau".
April 19 –
Teedyuscung , known as the "King of the Delaware Indians" (the
Lenape tribe) is assassinated by arsonists who burn down his home in
Pennsylvania while he is sleeping, in an apparent retaliation for signing the
Treaty of Easton to relinquish Lenape claims to the Province of New Jersey.
[5]
April 23 – The controversial Issue 45 of
John Wilkes 's satirical newspaper
The North Briton is published as a response to a speech four days earlier by King George III praising the end of the Seven Years' War.
[6] In what will become a test case for
freedom of speech , Wilkes, a member of Parliament, is arrested for
libel of the King and imprisoned, then exiled to France.
April 27 – Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French,
Pontiac , chief of the
Odawa people, convenes a conference near
Detroit and convinces the leaders of 17 other nations of the need to attack British outposts.
[7]
May 7 – Chief Pontiac begins "
Pontiac's War " by attacking the British garrison at
Fort Detroit , but the surprise attack is given away by a young native girl who informs the British of the plan.
[7] Two days later he begins the
Siege of Fort Detroit .
June 2 –
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.
June 28 – A
magnitude 6.2 earthquake shakes
Hungary and
Slovakia , with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ). Damage is limited, but 83 are killed.
[8]
July–September
July 7 – The
British East India Company declares
Mir Qasim , the
Nawab of Bengal , to be deposed.
[9]
July 9 – The
Mozart family grand tour of Europe began, lifting the profile of child prodigy
Wolfgang Amadeus .
[10]
August 2 –
Mir Qasim is routed at Odwa Nala.
[9] He flees to
Patna , where he massacres the English garrison, but is subsequently defeated at
Katwa ,
Murshidabad ,
Giria , Sooty, Udayanala and
Munger .
August 3 and 4 –
Amsterdam banking crisis : The spectacular bankruptcies of
Leendert Pieter de Neufville and
Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky lead to a
financial contagion and affected in the days after many merchants in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Stockholm.
August 5 –
Pontiac's War –
Battle of Bushy Run : British forces led by
Henry Bouquet defeat
Chief Pontiac 's Indians at
Bushy Run , in the
Pennsylvania backcountry.
August – Fire in
Smyrna ,
Ottoman Empire , destroys 2,600 houses.
September 1 –
Catherine II of Russia endorses
Ivan Betskoy 's plans for a
Foundling Home in Moscow .
October–December
October 7 – The
Royal Proclamation of 1763 is issued by
George III of the United Kingdom , restricting the westward expansion of
British North America , and stabilizing relations with the
indigenous peoples of the Americas , by barring white settlement of lands west of the
Appalachian Mountains .
November 24 –
Bayes' theorem is first announced.
[11]
December 2 –
Touro Synagogue ,
Newport, Rhode Island , is dedicated; by the end of the 20th century, this will be the
oldest surviving
synagogue in North America.
December 14 – The
Paxton Boys massacre six
Conestoga Indians in their homes in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania . When the 16 survivors are sheltered in the Lancaster workhouse (jail), the Paxton Boys ride into town and kill them as well, on
December 27 .
Date unknown
Births
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
January 26 –
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ,
Marshal of France , King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Charles III John of Norway (d.
1844 )
February 14 –
Jean Victor Marie Moreau , French general (d.
1813 )
February 20 –
Adalbert Gyrowetz , Bohemian composer (d.
1850 )
March 9 –
William Cobbett , English journalist, author (d.
1835 )
March 13 –
Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune , Marshal of France (d.
1815 )
March 21 –
Jean Paul , German writer (d.
1825 )
May 7 –
Józef Antoni Poniatowski , Polish prince, Marshal of France (d.
1813 )
June 20 –
Theobald Wolfe Tone , Irish patriot (d.
1798 )
Empress Joséphine
June 23 –
Empress Joséphine , born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, Martinique-born French empress consort (d.
1814 )
July 17 –
John Jacob Astor , German-born American entrepreneur (d.
1848 )
August 5 –
Bill Richmond , American-born British boxer (d.
1829 )
August 13 –
Christoph Johann von Medem , German courtier (d.
1838 )
August 16 –
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany , second son of George III of Great Britain
August 17 –
Dmitry Senyavin , Russian admiral (d.
1831 )
September 2 –
Caroline Schelling , German scholar, intellectual (d.
1809 )
December 25 –
Claude Chappe , French telecommunication pioneer (d.
1805 )
December 28 –
John Molson , Canadian entrepreneur (d.
1836 )
December 31 –
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve , French admiral (d.
1806 )
Date unknown –
Huang Pilie , Chinese
bibliophile (d.
1825 )
[12]
Deaths
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
January 2 –
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville , English statesman (b.
1690 )
January 11 –
Caspar Abel , German theologian, historian, and poet (b.
1676 )
January 29 –
Louis Racine , French poet (b.
1692 )
February 11 –
William Shenstone , English poet (b.
1714 )
February 12 –
Pierre de Marivaux , French writer (b.
1688 )
February 26 –
Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b.
1711 )
March 2 –
Antoine Walsh , Irish-French slave trader and Jacobite (b.
1703 )
March 4 –
Johan Hörner , Danish artist (b.
1711 )
March 24 –
Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie , Swedish countess (b.
1723 )
March 31 –
Abraham Darby II , English ironmaster (b.
1711 )
April 8
April 13 –
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave of Great Britain (b.
1715 )
April 22 –
Jared Eliot , Connecticut farmer, writer on horticulture (b.
1685 )
May 3 –
George Psalmanazar , French-born impostor and English writer (b. c.
1679 )
June 29 –
Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht , Swedish writer (b.
1718 )
August 14 –
Giovanni Battista Somis , Italian violinist and composer (b.
1686 )
August 21 –
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont , British statesman (b.
1710 )
September 20 –
Gabriela Silang , Filipino rebel leader, heroine (b.
1731 )
September 26 –
John Byrom , English poet (b.
1692 )
October –
Anna Maria Garthwaite , British designer (b.
1688 )
October 5 –
Augustus ,
Elector of Saxony ,
King of Poland and
Grand Duke of Lithuania (b.
1696 )
October 28 –
Heinrich von Brühl , German statesman (b.
1700 )
November 10 –
Joseph Dupleix – French governor general at
Pondichéry (b.
1697 )
November 23 –
Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff , German soldier (b.
1673 )
November 28 –
Naungdawgyi ,
Burmese king (b.
1734 )
December 3 –
Carl August Thielo , Danish composer (b.
1702 )
December 17 –
Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (b.
1722 )
December 23 –
Antoine François Prévost , French writer (b.
1697 )
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