 1759 - Bef 1767 (< 7 years)
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| 1 | 1759 | - 1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
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| 2 | 1760 | - 1760: George III King of England 1760 - 1820
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| 3 | 1762 | - 1762: France surrenders Canada and Florida
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| 4 | 1763 | - 1763: Treaty of Paris of 1763 - In a nutshell, Britain emerged as the world?s leading colonial empire. Her possessions stretched from India to Africa to the West Indies to North America. The British shocked knowledgeable people of the day by choosing to take the barren wasteland of Canada from France, rather than the prosperous West Indian sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.North America.
Received Canada from France - Received Florida from Spain - Ceded recently taken Guadeloupe and Martinique back to France - Ceded recently taken Cuba and the Philippines to Spain - Received Grenada and the Grenadines from France - Received extensive Indian rights from France - Received Senegal from France - Received Minorca from France and Spain
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| 5 | 1767 | - 1767: First iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt - First one installed at Tipton
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