March 1 – King Louis XV decrees that all cities and towns in France will be required to post house numbering on all residential buildings, primarily to facilitate the forced quartering of troops in citizens’ homes.[3]
Prithvi Singh begins a reign of 10 years as the new Raja of Jaipur (part of the modern-day Indian state of Rajasthan), 12 days after the death of Madho Singh.[5]
March 27 – Catherine the Great of Russia dispatches troops under General Pyotr Krechetnikov to intervene in a civil war in Poland, at the request of Poland’s King Stanisław II Augustus, a move that will ultimately lead to the Partitions of Poland.[2]
June 14 – The largest mass meeting ever held in New England, up to this time, takes place at the Old South Church to support a petition demanding that the British remove a ship which has been hindering navigation in Boston Harbor.[7]
July 14 – The massacre of Polish people (most likely by the Russians) at the village of Balta, now a part of Ukraine but at the time an Ottoman Empire town on the frontier with Poland, leads to the Russo-Turkish War.[10]
July 25 – The Imperial Court of China‘s Emperor Qianlong and his three senior grand councilors, Fuheng, Yenjisan and Liu T’ung-hsun, issues a directive to officials in the Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces warning them about the need to respond to rumors of sorcery.[11]
August 7 – The palace of the Ottoman Grand Vizier is destroyed by a fire in Constantinople [12]
August 27 – Almost all merchants and traders in the British colony of New York sign a pact not to import British manufactured goods as long as the Townshend Acts are in effect, nor to do business with nonassociators to the pact.[14]
August 30 – A fire burns much of the Library of the Vatican.[12]
September 22–29 – The Massachusetts Convention of Towns, assembling in Boston, resolves on a written objection to the impending arrival of British troops rather than more militant action but causes panic in London.
October–December
October 1 – The British Army’s 29th Infantry Regiment of foot soldiers, which will carry out the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, arrives in Boston Harbor along with three other regiments. The 700 foot soldiers march through the Massachusetts colony’s capital as a show of force and begin their occupation.[15] Within a year, there will be “nearly 4,000 armed redcoats in the crowded seaport of 15,000 inhabitants.”[16]
October 15 – A powerful hurricane sweeps across Cuba during the Festival of Santa Teresa, killing hundreds of people. Spain’s King Carlos III begins a precedent of ordering the colonial government to fund disaster relief, a task previously left to the Catholic Church.[19]
October 29 – French colonists in Louisiana refuse to accept the colony’s acquisition by Spain and begin an uprising that forces Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa to flee.[21]
^Norwood Young, The Life of Frederick the Great (Henry Holt and Co., 1919) p386
^ abBrian Davies, Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia’s Turkish Wars in the Eighteenth Century (A&C Black, 2011)
^“Indexing the Great Ledger of the Community: Urban House Numbering, City Directories, and the Production of Spatial Legibility”, by Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, in Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming, ed. by Lawrence D. Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho (Ashgate Publishing, 2009) p199
^Jace Weaver, The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 (University of North Carolina Press Books, 2014) p164
^Sailendra Nath Sen, Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785-96 (Popular Prakashan, 1995) p126
^Alexander von Humboldt, Picturesque Atlas of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 1814, reprinted 2011) p119
^ abcGordon Carruth, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, 3rd Edition (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1962) pp76-79
^“St. George’s Field Riot”. Spartacus. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
^Dunmore, John, ed. (2002). The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768. London: Hakluyt Society. ISBN 0-904180-78-6.
^Walter K. Kelly, The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (H. G. Bohn, 1855) p47
^Philip A. Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Harvard University Press, 2009) p78
^ ab“Fires, Great”, in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p56
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