World+Events

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 * 1754: French and Indian war begins
 * 1762: France: Jean Jacques Rousseau states his political philosophy in The Social Contract
 * 1763: Seven Years’ war ends
 * 1765: Stamp act pass by British Parliament; colonist protests bitterly
 * 1767: Townshend Acts impose new taxes, angering colonist further
 * 1773: Parliament Tea Act prompts Boston Tea party
 * 1775: The American Revolution begins
 * 1776: Second Continental Congress adopts the declaration of independence.
 * 1779: South Africa: first of Kaffir wars between blacks and whites breaks out
 * 1781: First federal U.S. census shows approximately 757.208 blacks in the U.S., nearly 20% of the total population. 59,557 are free
 * 1793:France: King Louis xvi and Marie Antoinette executed
 * 1796: France Napoleon Bonaparte comes to power in France

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