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October 7 – The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is issued by George III of the United Kingdom, restricting the westward expansion of British North America, and stabilizing relations with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, by barring white settlement of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
15 February – the Treaty of Hubertusburg puts an end to the Seven Years' War between Prussia and Austria and their allies. March 1 – Charles Townshend becomes President of the Board of Trade in the British government. May 7 – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
Proclamation of 1763, proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to conciliate the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. Learn more about the Proclamation of 1763 in this article.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain.
views 2,494,044 updated. THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1763 – 1790 OVERVIEW. At the end of the French and Indian War (1754 – 1763), British North America was a scattered patchwork of individual colonies that had been allowed to develop their own economic and political systems during a previous 40-year period of neglect by the government in London.
The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded all French lands to Britain, and decided the colonial fate of the continent. Shortly after the end of the war, the British government dropped its policy of salutary neglect and attempted to gain tighter control over its holdings in North America.
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