Born in 1773:
Events of 1773:
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The Trouble with Tea
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The British Parliament takes some control of India away from the corrupt
British East India Company with a Regulating
Act asserting sovereignty over India and laying out its governance.
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The East India Company gains a monopoly over opium production and founds
a bank in Canton with the profits.
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(May) In order to keep the East India Company from going bankrupt, Parliament
passes the Tea Act:
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authorizing the sale of half a million pounds of tea to the American
colonies free of duties. For the Company, that is.
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Allowing the Company to sell tea only through selected merchants, effectively
setting up monopolies.
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(December) The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, board ships in
Boston Harbor and toss the ships' cargo of tea into the harbor in order
to protest the British tax on tea. (the Boston Tea Party)
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Pope Clement XIV bows to the pressure of the Bourbon monarchs and
issues an order suppressing the Jesuit Order.
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The first assembly on Prince Edward Island convenes.
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Yemelyan Pugachev escapes from Imperial Russian authorities. Posing
as Emperor Peter III (who had been murdered in 1762), he leads a rebellion
consisting of serfs, Cossacks, and clergymen. He lays siege to the
city of Orenburg in the Ural Mountains.
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An earthquake destroys the capital of Guatemala, Santiago de Guatemala,
(now called Antigua Guatemala).
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Captain James Cook's ship, the Resolution, is the first to cross
the Antarctic Circle. The fabulous southern continent is shown
not to exist.
1772 - 1773 - 1774
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