March 15 – The day after his return toParis from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholarAnquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of theZoroastrian sacred text, theZend Avesta, to theBibliothèque Royale inParis, along with several other traditional texts.[4] In 1771, he publishes the first European translation of theZend Avesta.
March 20 – After the British victory in theFrench and Indian War, the first post-war British expedition to explore the newly acquired territories east of theMississippi River comes under attack byTunica warriors. The 340 British Army men, under the command of MajorArthur Loftus, were at a spot south ofNatchez, Mississippi and were forced to flee in their boats back toward the port ofNew Orleans while under fire from an unknown number of Tunicas firing from both banks.[6]
April 21 – Residents ofFrench Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule as the result of a secret agreement of November 13, 1762 whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.[11] The Spanish, however, do not take possession until August 17, 1769.
April 27 – Eight-year-old child prodigyWolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs a private concert before King George III and Queen Charlotte in Great Britain, and has an encore on May 19.[12]
May 3 –Baden, one of the member states of theConfederation of Switzerland, declares a policy of remaining neutral in future conflicts, a model that is soon followed by other members of the Confederation and which eventually becomes the basis forSwiss neutrality from 1815 onward.[13]
June 21 – The English-languageQuebec Gazette is established inQuebec City, Canada (the oldest surviving newspaper in North America).
July 6 – The last British troops departHavana,Cuba, two years after having captured it fromSpain during theSeven Years' War. The removal of troops follows the treaty between the two Kingdoms, with Spain cedingWest Florida to Great Britain in return for the Havana withdrawal.[14]
July 8 – The Niagara Conference begins at the invitation ofSir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern district, who hosts "one of the largest conventions of red men ever held on the continent" to negotiate the end of the hostilities from theFrench and Indian War. Reportedly, 2,000 representatives of the North American tribes meet at upstate New York coming from distances ranging "FromDakota toHudson's Bay, and fromMaine toKentucky."[15]
July 11 – Conditional repatriation of theAcadians inCanada, French colonists who took up arms against the British during the war, is approved by order of King George III on advice of thePrivy Council. The Council offers settlement to any Acadians willing to take an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and that those living inNew Brunswick are to "be allowed to settle inNova Scotia, but that they should be dispersed in small numbers in various localities."[16]
July 26 – In what is described 250 years later as "The first documented United States school shooting",[18] a group of fourDelaware Indians invade a schoolhouse near what is nowGreencastle, Pennsylvania and kill ten schoolchildren and their teacher, Enoch Brown.[19] The massacre happens in the course ofPontiac's War, as retaliation against white settlement of Indian lands in central Pennsylvania. One student, Archie McCullough, manages to escape the carnage; a memorial is erected 120 years later on August 4, 1884.[20]
July 31 – Johnson arrives at the Niagara River site to meet with the representatives of the Indian nations.[21]
Chief Pontiac, participating in an armed conflict with other native tribes against British military, participates in a dialogue and exchange with the military of Britain, resulting eventually in a negotiated peace treaty.[24][25]
^The Zend-Avesta, translated by James Darmesteter (Clarendon Press, 1880) p xv
^John Foreman,The Philippine Islands: A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule, with an Account of the Succeeding American Insular Government (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906) p97
^David Narrett,Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803 (University of North Carolina, 2015) p34
^David Narrett,Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803 (University of North Carolina, 2015) p26
^Brian L. Davies,The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016)
^S, L (1909).Untravelled Berkshire. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd. pp. 22–23.
^John B. Dillon,Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America (Robert Douglass Publishing, 1879) p322
^"Mozart's Organ Sonatas", by Orlando A. Mansfield, inThe Musical Quarterly (Oct/Dec 1922) p570
^Gregory Fossedal,Direct Democracy in Switzerland (Routledge, 2018)
^Alexander von Humboldt,Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition, translated by J. Bradford Anderson, et al. (University of Chicago Press, 2011) p110
^William Elliot Griffis,The Romance of American Colonization: How the Foundation Stones of Our History Were Laid (W. A. Wilde & Company, 1898) p259
^William F. Ganong,A Monograph of the Origins of the Settlements in New Brunswick (J. Hope & Sons, 1904) p190
^David Bennett,A Few Lawless Vagabonds: Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont, and the American Revolution (Casemate, 2014)
^"Gun Violence and School Safety in American Schools", by Daniel Eadens, et al., inThe Wiley Handbook of Educational Policy (Wiley Blackwell, 2018) p384
^Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass,Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities (ABC-CLIO, 2016) p30
^abDavid T. McNab,Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999) pp49-50
^"Niagara, Treaty of", by Karl S. Hele, inThe Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. by Spencer C. Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2011) p566
^Bisha, Robin (2002).Russian Women, 1698-1917 Experience and Expression: An Anthology of Sources. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 162–163.
^Thomas R. Church (Major) 2015 -dtic.milArchived November 13, 2018, at theWayback Machine January 2015 Accessed February 17, 2018
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