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Date |
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| 1 | 1752 | - 2 Sep 1752: Britain and British colonies switch from Julien to Gregorian calendar.
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| 2 | 1755 | - 1755—1763: Expulsion of 11,500 Acadians from Nova Scotia. 1/3 perish from disease or drowning.
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| 3 | 1756 | - 1756: Seven Years War begins
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| 4 | 1762 | - 5 Feb 1762: Martinique, a major French base in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, surrendered to the British.
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| 5 | 1763 | - 10 Feb 1763: Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris ending the French-Indian War. France ceded Canada to England and gave up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands including St. Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland.
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| 6 | 1766 | - 5 Mar 1766: Spanish official Don Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana Territory from the French.
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| 7 | 1770 | - 5 Mar 1770: Boston Massacre
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| 8 | 1773 | - 16 Dec 1773: Boston Tea Party
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1745 - 1774 (28 years)