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1757 - The First World War
By accepting Pitt as secretary at war, George II accepted that the King's power to choose his own ministers was now negligible.
The war in the Americas was savage. It was fundamentally Britain against France but there was more at stake. There were now more than one million British Americans, some were third or fourth generation. They were not convinced they wanted to fight for the British and were not always sure which side they should fight for. The Red Indians lent another facet to the war many were under the pay of the French.
George Washington, a Virginian officer, was learning his first military lessons.
JAMES HARGREAVES (?-1778) - Invented the spinning jenny(it was his wife's name)
- ABlackburn weaver who, in the mid-1760s designed a carding machine that let spinners produce several threads at once
- The courts rejected his patent application because he had made and sold several before he lodged it
Hargreaves named his invention after his wife.
18TH CENTURY INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS
- James Hargreaves - Spinning Jenny
- Sir Richard Arkwright - Patented Spinning Water Frame
- Jethro Tull - Wheeled Seed Drill
- Viscount Townshend - Turnip Crop Rotation
- Joseph Priestley - Isolated Oxygen
- James Brindley - Canal Builder.
- James Watt - steam engine
 
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| 1727 | George I dies
George II becomes king
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| 1751 | Death of Frederick Prince of Wales
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| 1754 | Tom Pelham, Duke of Newcastle becomes Prime Minister
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| 1756 | Pitt the Elder becomes Secretary at War
Seven Years' War starts
Black Hole of Calcutta
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| 1757 | Militia Act
Calcutta recaptured
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| 1760 | George II dies
George III becomes king
Wolfe dies at Quebec
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| 1761 | Pitt the Elder falls from power
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