Enlightenment · North America · War
1763
Pontiac's Rebellion
May 1763
An Ottawa war leader named Pontiac coordinated a pan-tribal uprising against the British forts that had replaced French ones. Eight posts fell; Detroit and Fort Pitt held. It was at Fort Pitt that British commanders sent blankets from smallpox patients to besieging Delawares - biological warfare, conducted by memo. The rebellion forced London to issue the Proclamation Line of 1763, banning colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
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Also in 1763 (3 other events on record)
- Treaty of Paris Ends the Seven Years' War · Europe · Politics
- Royal Proclamation Line of 1763 · North America · Politics
- Kruzenshtern and the Russian Pacific Claims · North America · Exploration
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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