Events
- 17 January - American Revolution: British troops clash with American colonists at the Battle of Golden Hill.
- 28 January - Following Grafton's resignation, Lord North forms a government and becomes Prime Minister.
- 5 March - Boston Massacre: five Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
- 12 April - American Revolution: Parliament repeals the Townshend Act.
- 20 April - First voyage of James Cook discovers the eastern coast of Australia.
- 9 June - Spanish troops seize Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands triggering a crisis.
- 10 June - James Cook discovers the Great Barrier Reef when HM Bark Endeavour runs onto it.
- July - Industrial Revolution: James Hargreaves obtains a patent for the spinning jenny.
- 22 August - James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia) for Great Britain.
- 18 October - Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, admits its first patients.
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“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)