The world: 1760s

1760–1769

Events in this period 2

1. 1763 – 1783 · North America · Politics

   American Revolution

   The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. It began as a rebellion and turned into a revolution eventually creating the sovereign United States, which was the outcome of the associated American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The Second Continental Congress, as the provisional government, established the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander-in-chief in 1775. The following year, the Congress passed the Lee Resolution on July 2nd and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. Throughout most of the war, the outcome appeared uncertain, but a 1781 victory by Washington and the Continental Army in the Siege of Yorktown led King George III and the Fox–North coalition in government to negotiate the cessation of colonial rule and the acknowledgment of American sovereignty, which was formalized in the Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783. The Constitution took effect in 1789 and the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.

2. 1761 · India · War

   Third Battle of Panipat

   The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761 between the Maratha Empire and the invading army of the Durrani Empire. The battle took place in and around the city of Panipat, approximately 97 kilometres (60 mi) north of Delhi. The Afghans were supported by three key allies in India: Najib-ud-Daula who persuaded the support of the Rohilla chiefs, elements of the declining Mughal Empire, and most prized the Oudh State under Shuja-ud-Daula. The Maratha army was led by Sadashivrao Bhau, who was third-highest authority of the Maratha Confederacy after the Chhatrapati and the Peshwa. The bulk of the Maratha army was stationed in the Deccan Plateau with the Peshwa.

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Still under way

• Seven Years' War1756 – 1763
• French and Indian War1754 – 1763

Around the same time

• Watt steam engine1776
• US Declaration of Independence1776
• French Revolution1789 – 1799
• Cook reaches Australia's east coast1770
• Constitution of the United States1787
• First Fleet1788
• War of the Austrian Succession1740 – 1748
• Dzungar genocide1755 – 1758
• Battle of Plassey1757
• Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II1780 – 1783
• Storming of the Bastille1789

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