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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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3rd April 1860: The first Pony Express service went into operation

9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship

25th May 1977: The first Star Wars film is released in cinemas

11th April 1950: Stone of Scone rediscovered 4 months after its disappearance

20th June 1756: British prisoners locked in the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’

19th June 1978: Garfield cartoon strip first published

18th June 1887: Germany and Russia sign the secret Reinsurance Treaty

17th June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York from France

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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