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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

3rd September 2017
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

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

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22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

7th April 1141: Matilda declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

6th January 1975: Led Zeppelin banned from Boston after fans run riot at Boston Garden arena

21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason

20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage

19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn

18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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