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3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

3rd September 2019
Tagged as: America, American Revolution, American War of Independence, Britain, France, George III, George Washington, Lord Shelburne, USA

The Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America.

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19th December 1783: William Pitt the Younger becomes Britain’s youngest ever Prime Minister

19th December 2018
Tagged as: Britain, George III, Parliament, Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister

William Pitt the Younger became the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

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3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

19th December 1783: William Pitt the Younger becomes Britain’s youngest ever Prime Minister

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21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution

24th July 1911: Machu Picchu ‘rediscovered’ by US explorer Hiram Bingham III

9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

18th January 1871: Wilhelm I declared German Emperor

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

16th January 27 BCE: Octavian becomes Augustus, Roman Emperor

15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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