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1761 - 17701762 Earliest Unitarian registers France surrenders Canada and Florida Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba 1763 Treaty of Paris – gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain
– (Newfoundland [fishing], Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar], Dakar [gum])
– but English displaces French as the international language 1764 Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared 1765 Stamp Act passed 1767 First iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt 1768 The first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published
in Edinburgh by William Smellie 1769 September 6: David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at
Stratford-upon-Avon Arkwright invents water frame (textile production) The Scottish inventor and
engineer James Watt patented a steam engine. Others had already built steam engines, but
Watt's engine was the first practical design. His first machines were used to pump water
from mines. Watt later modified his steam engine so that it could drive machinery.
Eventually the steam engine drove textile machinery and powered locomotives. 1770 Hargreaves's jenny invented (textile production) April 28: James Cook discovers New South Wales Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major thoroughfare for maritime communications Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer born April 1770 - Cook reaches Australia
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