• Events from the year 1764 in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – George Grenville (Whig) 19 January – John Wilkes is expelled from the...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1764. 1764 (MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday...
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  • Events from the year 1764 in Wales. Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant...
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    This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1760–1764. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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    The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially known as Great Britain, was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created...
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    Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764. The preamble to the act stated: "it is expedient that new provisions...
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    "Currency Act" Mercantilism Navigation Acts Sugar Act 1764 Stamp Act 1765 Notes Britain, Great (1995). Current Law Statutes Annotated. Sweet & Maxwell...
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    North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain. It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia...
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    marriage was announced in Great Britain 10 January 1765. The same year, 1764, she received a proposal from her brother's brother-in-law, Adolf Frederick...
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    May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman...
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  • Events from the year 1764 in Scotland. Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery jointly with Francis...
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    remained outside the newly formed federation. In North America, the Seven Years' War had seen Great Britain conquer the entirety of the French colony of...
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    Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the...
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    1762 to the first week of April 1764. The occupation was an extension of the larger Seven Years' War between Britain and France, which Spain had recently...
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    of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and...
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    Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover...
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    Parliament of Great Britain, 1760–1764 List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1765 List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1766...
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    August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector...
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    The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament...
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    of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of Scotland and England, until her death in 1714...
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    circumnavigation in 1764. Not long after her commissioning, the hostilities of the Seven Years' War had escalated and spread to Europe, and in May 1756 Britain declared...
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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a royal title normally granted to sons and grandsons of reigning and past British monarchs, plus...
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  • Church of Great Britain is a Protestant Christian denomination in Britain, and the mother church to Methodists worldwide. It participates in the World...
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    1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of...
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    The railway system of Great Britain started with the building of local isolated wooden wagonways starting in the 1560s. A patchwork of local rail links...
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    1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into...
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  • (born 1772) September 3 – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect (born 1764 in Great Britain) September 21 – Joseph Rodman Drake, poet (born 1795; consumption)...
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    This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1713. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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