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

19th December 2018
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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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10th December 1768: First edition of the Encyclopaedia @Britannica published (Corrected)

4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by ‘tipping’ a V-1 doodlebug

6th July 1947: The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle goes into production in the USSR

25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

18th March 1314: Execution of last Knights Templar Grand Master

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US troops

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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