Volume 23 - Section XII - ElectricCanadian.com

300 CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINESCANADAEUROPE1764 Sir William Johnson holds an Indiancouncil at Niagara.Colonel Bradstreet relieves Fort Detroit.Colonel Bouquet subdues the Indians ofthe Ohio valley.The Sugar Act.1765 The British occupy Fort Chartres.Pontiac submits to the British.The StampA Act.congress at New York opposes theStamp Act and resistance is organizedthroughout the Colonies.1766 Paulus JEmilius Irving administrator ofQuebec.1766-68 Guy Carleton lieutenant-governor andadministrator of Quebec.1766-73 William Campbell governor-in-chief ofNova Scotia.1766 Repeal of the Stamp Act.Declaratory Act passes the British parliament, declaring its power to bind theProvinces in all cases whatsoever.1767 Townshend s Revenue Act imposes importduties in the American Colonies.The New York legislature suspended.Non-importation agreement adopted inBoston.The lands of Isle St John (P.E.I.) grantedto proprietors.1768-78 Guy Carleton governor-in-chief of Quebec.1768 Treaty of Stanwix defines the boundariesof the Indian Territories.The American Colonies resist the collection of customs duties.British troops are stationed in Boston.1769 Murder of Pontiac.Non -importation agreements adoptedthroughout the American Colonies.1770-74 Hector Theophilus Cramahfc administrator of Quebec. (Appointed lieutenant-governor 1771.)1770 The Boston Massacre.Townshend s duties repealed with theof that on tea.exception1770-72 Samuel Hearne visits the CoppermineRiver, Great Slave Lake, and SlaveRiver.1770-84 Walter Patterson governor of the Islandof St Jean.1771-72 Benjamin Green administrator of NovaScotia.1772 Samuel Adams organizes CorrespondenceCommittees in the American Colonies.1772-73 Peter Pond winters among Sioux Indians.1773-82 Francis Legge governor-in-chief of NovaScotia.MARQUESS OF ROCKINGHAM PBIMBMINISTER, 1765-66.WATT S STEAM ENGINE, 1765.BLACKSTONE S COMMENTARIES ON THELAWS OF ENGLAND, 1765.THE EAST INDIA COMPANY OBTAINS THEFINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL, 1765.EARL OF CHATHAM (Pitt) PRIME MINISTER,1766-68.GOLDSMITH S1766.<VICAR OF WAKEFIELD,Lessing s Laoooon, 1766.Bougainville commences hia voyagesaround the world, 1766.Spain banishes the Jesuits, 1767.DUKE OF GRAFTON PRIMB MINISTER,1768-70.WlLKES ELECTED FOR MIDDLESEX, 1768.REYNOLDS FOUNDS THE ROYAL ACADEMY,1768.EXPLORATIONS IN THE PACIFIC BYCAPTAIN COOK, 1768.War between Russia and Turkey, 1768-74.WlLKES DECLARED INCAPABLE OF SITTING IN PARLIAMENT AND IMPRISONED,1769.LETTERS OF JUNIUS, 1769.LORD NORTH PRIME MINISTER, 1770-82.BURKE s THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENTDISCONTENTS, 1770.HARGREAVES PATENTS HIS SPINNING-JENNY, 1770.The Dauphin, afterwards Louis XVI, marries Marie Antoinette of Austria, 1770.THE REPORTING OF PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES IS HENCEFORTH TOLERATED,1771.THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND, 1772.WARREN HASTINGS BECOMES GOVERNOROF BENGAL, 1772.MANSFIELD DECLARES THAT SLAVERYCANNOT EXIST IN ENGLAND, 1772.