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Events from the year 1763 in Great Britain. Incumbents- Monarch – George III
- Prime Minister – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (Tory) (until 8 April); George Grenville (Whig) (starting 16 April)
- Parliament – 12th
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 no. 45 — criticising George III's speech of 23 April 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]
- 28 December – John Molson, entrepreneur in Canada (died 1836)
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)
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=322}}
3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Murshidabad|url=http://www.royalark.net/India4/murshid8.htm|accessdate=2012-02-29}}
4. ^A Letter from the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S. (PDF)
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1750–1800|accessdate=2007-08-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164134/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800|archivedate= 17 August 2007}}
6. ^Coats, Alice M. Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992. s.v. "Rhododendron".
7. ^{{cite book|last=Merwin|first=Henry|title=The Life of Bret Harte|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1911|page=4}}
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