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1765 and British
* Stamp Act 1765 with British & American cartoons
The American colonies also used the idea of a Liberty Tree to celebrate their own acts of insurrection against the British, starting with the Stamp Act riot in 1765.
* 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
* 1765American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
* 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
* 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
* 1765 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain ( d. 1819 )
In 1765, the British parliament enacted the first of the Quartering Acts, requiring the American colonies to pay the costs of British soldiers serving in the colonies, and requiring that if the local barracks provided insufficient space, that the colonists provide space for the troops to live in alehouses, inns, and livery stables.
Parliament believed that these acts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767, were a legitimate means of having the colonies pay their fair share of the costs to keep the colonies in the British Empire.
Revere's business began to suffer when the British economy entered a recession in the years following the Seven Years ' War, and declined further when the Stamp Act of 1765 resulted in a further downturn in the Massachusetts economy.
* Falkland Islands-The first British base of 1765 was abandoned in 1776.
After his father's death in 1765, Boone traveled with his brother Squire and a group of men to Florida, which had become British territory after the end of the war, to look into the possibility of settling there.
It was named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Prime Minister from 1765 to 1766 and again in 1782.
1765 – 27 June 1829 ) was a British chemist and mineralogist.
Belle Rive got its name from Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, who surrendered Illinois to the British in 1765.
* George Smith ( 1765 – 1836 ), British Member of Parliament representing Midhurst
* Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet ( 1765 – 1854 ), British Whig politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Great Grimsby 1812 – 18 and Peterborough 1819 – 47
Before the lordship of the Island was purchased by the British Crown in 1765 ( the Revestment ), the assent of the Lord of Mann to a Bill was signified by letter to the Governor.
The Stamp Act 1765 ( short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 ; 5 George III, c. 12 ) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America.
Although the term " sons of liberty " had been used in a generic fashion well before 1765, it was only around February 1766 that its influence as an organized group, using the formal name " Sons of Liberty ", extended throughout the colonies, leading to the development of a pattern for future resistance to the British that would carry the colonies towards 1776.

1765 and Quartering
Parliament passed the Quartering Act of 1765, permitting British troops to be quartered in private residences.
* 1765Parliament enacts ( March 24 ) the Quartering Act, requiring the Colonies to provide housing, food, and other provisions to British troops.
The Province of New York was their headquarters, because the assembly had passed an Act to provide for the quartering of British regulars, but it expired on January 2, 1764, The result was the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
Pownall would later author portions of the 1765 Quartering Act, a Parliamentary bill whose implementation was widely resisted in the colonies.
He used his position in Parliament to highlight the colonial objections to the Quartering Act of 1765 and other unpopular legislation.
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.
Townshend also faced the problem of what to do about the New York Provincial Assembly, which had refused to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act because its members saw the act's financial provisions as levying an unconstitutional tax.

1765 and Act
Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, and began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests against the Townshend Acts ( enacted in 1767 ) became widespread.
He was a leading opponent of the 1765 Stamp Act, chairing the committee that drafted the instructions for Maryland's delegates to the Stamp Act Congress.
In 1765 Randolph found himself at odds with a freshman burgess, Patrick Henry, over the matter of a response to the Stamp Act.
At the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, McKean and Caesar Rodney represented Delaware.
Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and is remembered for his " Give me Liberty, or give me Death!
During his first term, he repealed the Stamp Act of 1765, reducing the tax burden on the colonies.
His reign saw an extended period of internal peace, although the finances stagnated following failed mercantilist doctrines pursued by the Hat administration ended only in the 1765 – 66 parliament, where the Cap opposition overtook the government and enacted reforms towards greater economic liberalism as well as a Freedom of Press Act almost unique at the time for its curtailing of all censorship, retaining punitive measures only for libeling the monarch or the Lutheran state church.
Alexandria was formed by Royal Charter on March 5, 1765, from portions of Bethlehem Township, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.
In what was to be called the Gaspée Affair, local patriots boarded HMS Gaspée, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay, where smuggling was common.
Lord Lindsey and his partner Sir William Killigrew had the Lindsey Level inhabited by farmers by 1638, but the onset of the Civil War permitted the destruction of the works until the 1765 Act of Parliament that led to the formation of the Black Sluice Commissioners.
In America, Coke's decision in Dr. Bonham's Case was used to justify the voiding of the Stamp Act 1765 and writs of assistance, which led to the American War of Independence, and after the establishment of the United States his decisions and writings profoundly influenced the Third and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution while necessitating the Sixteenth.
During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and Marbury v. Madison, the American case which forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution, uses the words " void " and " repugnant ", seen as a direct reference to Coke.
During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and in the income tax case of 1895, Joseph Hodges Choate used Coke's argument that a tax upon the income of property is a tax on the property itself to have the Supreme Court of the United States declare the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act unconstitutional, leading to the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.
Notice of Stamp Act of 1765 in Newspaper

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