1765

Events

March 9 - Judges in Paris find Jean Calas innocent, (after having been tortured and executed in 1762) of murdering his son, Marc-Antoine, who had committed suicide), mainy because Voltaire wrote a series of articles calling for the case to be re-opened
March 22 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
March 24 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops
May 18 - Fire destroys one quarter of town of Montreal, Quebec.
June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.
November 1 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul
Nicholas Cugnot pioneers the automobile with a three-wheel gun tractor
James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with a more effective steam engine
In Lisbon, the auto-da-fe parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished
Josef II becomes Holy Roman Emperor
Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto

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