Formal ceding of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa by the Mogul Emperor to the English.
1766. Repeal of the Stamp Act by the British Parliament.
Hydrogen discovered by Henry Cavendish.
Protestants refused concessions by the Diet of Poland; Russia and Prussia intervene; first step toward the partition of Poland.
1767. Parliament imposes duties on imports into the American colonies.
Beginning of the war between the English and the rajah of Mysore, Hyder Ali.
Hargreaves invents the spinning-jenny for cotton-weaving.
1768. Elections in England; repeated expulsion and reëlection of Wilkes.
A military force stationed at Boston by the British; a circular-letter of Massachusetts to the other American colonies.
Corsica, in revolt, is ceded by Genoa to France.