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  • United Kingdom
    1763
    George Washington

    Royal Proclamation of 1763

    United Kingdom
    1763

    Washington played a central role before and during the American Revolution. His disdain for the British military had begun when he was abashedly passed over for promotion into the Regular Army. Opposed to taxes imposed by the British Parliament on the Colonies without proper representation, He and other colonists were also angered by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which banned American settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains and protected the British fur trade.




  • Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria, Germany
    1763
    Mozart

    Playing organ for the first time

    Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria, Germany
    1763

    The family set out in the early summer of 1763 and visited Wasserburg on their way to Munich, from where Leopold wrote that Mozart had started to play the organ, as soon as Leopold had explained briefly what they did, Mozart was off playing as if he had been practicing for several months.




  • Paris, France
    Friday Nov 18, 1763
    Mozart

    Mozart with king Louis XV in Paris

    Paris, France
    Friday Nov 18, 1763

    On 18 November Mozart arrived at Paris. His family and he would end up living there for 5 months. The family was allowed to live in Rue St Antoine in the home of Count Maximilian Emanuel Franz von Eyck and gave a concert for Louis XV on 1 January 1764. The Mozart 's reputation followed them and they were fed by the aristocracy everywhere they went.




  • Walldorf
    Sunday Jul 17, 1763

    John Astor Birth

    Walldorf
    Sunday Jul 17, 1763

    The first multi-millionaire in the United States, John Jacob Astor, was born in Walldorf, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire.




  • Saxony-Anhalt
    Saturday Jan 29, 1763

    Johann Seume Birth

    Saxony-Anhalt
    Saturday Jan 29, 1763

    The German writer, Johann Gottfried Seume, was born in Poserna, Saxony-Anhalt, in the year 1763.




  • Rotterdam
    Sunday Jul 17, 1763

    Hendricus van der Palm Birth

    Rotterdam
    Sunday Jul 17, 1763

    The Dutch theologist and Minister of Education, Johannes Hendricus van der Palm, was born in 1840.




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