In the 1760s William Blackstone ( 1979: 41 ) described the thesis:

In the 1760s, William Blackstone sought to codify the English common law.

According to the great treatise of the 1760s by William Blackstone entitled Commentaries on the Laws of England:

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

Social scientist William Baillie Hamilton notes that Captain James Cook and his assistant Michael Lane, who mapped Newfoundland in the 1760s, often displayed a sense of humour in the place names they chose, and were not above selecting names that might offend overly sensitive readers.

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

John and William Bastard rebuilt the town over the following 30 years and the town centre features Georgian architecture from the 1730s to 1760s.

The current project ( 2011-) is the restoration of Dublin's 1760s City Assembly House in South William Street.

The current Royal Mews was built to designs by John Nash and were completed in 1825 ( though the Riding School, thought to be by William Chambers, dates from the 1760s ).

The resulting correspondence between the leading church elders, Glas and Sandeman, and English pastors, Samuel Pike, John Barnard, and William Cudworth among others, led to the adoption of this primitive form of Christianity for their London congregations beginning in the early 1760s.

Marske was sold to a Ringwood farmer for 20 guineas on the death of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, and was used to breed with " country mares " in the 1760s.

He was co-author, with George Colman, of Ode to Obscurity and Ode to Oblivion, both published in the early 1760s, and both satires on the works of the poets William Mason and Thomas Gray.

She enjoyed a long friendship with Joseph Priestley and William Enfield, starting from their years together at the Warrington Academy in the 1760s, where her father was tutor.

However, it appears that remodelling was not undertaken until the 1760s when his son William Constable commissioned a number of architects for designs.

The Dining Room was substantially remodelled by William Constable in the 1760s, who commissioned designs from Robert Adam, Thomas Atkinson, and Timothy Lightoler ( who won the commission ).

After graduating, he moved first to Virginia in the 1760s, then settled in Charleston, South Carolina ( which had been settled from Bermuda in 1670, under the leadership of William Sayle, and which had a large community of expatriate Bermudians ) and opened a practice.

As described by modern historian Malcolm Barber in The New Knighthood: " It was during the 1760s that German masons introduced a specific Templar connection, claiming that the Order, through its occupation of the Temple of Solomon, had been the repository of secret wisdom and magical powers, which James of Molay had handed down to his successor before his execution and of which the eighteenth-century Freemasons were the direct heirs.

" According to him, until the 1760s, a " man's house was even less of a legal castle in America than in England " as the authorities possessed almost unlimited power and little oversight.

Fishing reels first appeared in England around 1650 AD, and by the 1760s, London tackle shops were advertising multiplying or gear-retrieved reels.

Throughout the 1760s, Moravians from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania traveled through this area on their way to New England to establish new communities.

In England, Winckelmann's views stirred discussion in the 1760s and 1770s, although it was limited to artistic circles: Henry Fuseli's translation of Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks was published in 1765, but the text did not find enough readers to warrant a second edition.

Philadelphia in 1796. In the 1760s the British Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts, combined with other frustrations, increased political tension and anger against England in the colonies.

The house was inherited by Tom Conolly ( 1738 – 1803 ) in 1758 and the interior decoration was finished by his wife Louisa Lennox ( greatgranddaughter of Charles II of England and Louise de Keroualle ) during the 1760s and 1770s.

The area was settled in the 1760s by New England Planters after the Acadian Expulsion.

The Adam style found its niche from the late 1760s in upper-class and middle-class residences in 18th-century England, Scotland, Russia ( where it was introduced by Scottish architect Charles Cameron ), and post-Revolutionary War United States ( where it became known as Federal style and took on a variation of its own ).

The antiquary and engraver George Vertue was a figure in the London art scene for most of the period, and his copious notebooks were adapted and published in the 1760s by Horace Walpole as Some Anecdotes of Painting in England, which remains a principal source for the period.

The house was inherited by Tom Conolly in 1758 and the interior decoration was finished by his wife Lady Louisa ( great-granddaughter of Charles II of England and Louise de Keroualle ) during the 1760s and 1770s.

Along with the Mi ' kmaq, there were primarily three strains of immigrants who settled the Aspotogan Peninsula: first the Newfoundland Irish ( 1750s ), then the New England Planters arrived from Chester, Nova Scotia ( 1760s ) and, finally, second generation Foreign Protestants arrived from French Village, Nova Scotia and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia ( 1780s ).

" By the 1760s he was good enough on the harpsichord to play with professional musicians in concerts.

It was the gradual infringement on the rights of the colonies starting in the 1760s that would lead to the American War of Independence.

Euler wrote over 200 letters to her in the early 1760s, which were later compiled into a best-selling volume entitled Letters of Euler on different Subjects in Natural Philosophy Addressed to a German Princess.

As Professor John Bessler points out, " An Essay on Crimes and Punishments ," written by Cesare Beccaria in the 1760s, advocated proportionate punishments.

He was out of power for most of his career, and became famous for his attacks on the government, such as Walpole's corruption in the 1730s, Hanoverian subsidies in the 1740s, peace with France in the 1760s, and the uncompromising policy toward the American colonies in the 1770s.

From 1776, the conflict turned increasingly into a proxy war on behalf of France, following a strategy proposed in the 1760s but initially resisted by the idealistic young King Louis XVI, who came to the throne at the age of 19 a few months before Lexington.

Such restriction was relaxed following the 1760s and by 1811 there were more than two million Chinese immigrants on Taiwan.

Some local historians consider that the settlement pre-dates Odessa by about thirty years and assert that the locality was founded by Moldavians who came to build the fortress of Yeni Dunia for the Ottomans and eventually settled in the area in the late 1760s, right next to the settlement of Khadjibey ( since 1795 Odessa proper ), on what later became the Prymorsky Boulevard.

By the early 1760s du Pont's writings on the national economy had drawn the attention of intellectuals such as Voltaire and Turgot.

Frankfort is the oldest town on the Penobscot River, first settled in the 1760s by Massachusetts soldiers from nearby Fort Pownall.

Beginning in the 1760s and continuing into the 1770s other groups slowly made their way into present-day Darlington and were granted lands on Lynches Creek ( River ), Jeffries Creek, and a host of other watercourses.

In the 1760s, £ 13, 000 was spent on improvements and maintenance, with several weirs being rebuilt to improve the depth of water.

In Japan colour technique, called nishiki-e in its fully developed form, spread more widely, and was used for prints, from the 1760s on.

The textile industry started in Mouscron in the 1760s thanks to the imposition by Lille of a ban on the fabrication of molletons, a mixture of flax and wool, in Roubaix and Tourcoing.

A total of 290 bird species have been recorded on the Farnes, including in the 1760s, an example of the now extinct Great Auk.

The Hellfire Club had previously used Medmenham Abbey, 8 miles ( 13 km ) away from West Wycombe on the River Thames, as a meeting place, but the caves at West Wycombe were used for meetings in the 1750s and early 1760s.

In the following years Hasse reset his earlier works based on Metastasio's texts, this time paying great attention to the poet's original intention, and during the 1760s, as Metastasio wrote new texts, Hasse was, as a general rules, the first composer to set them.

From the late 1760s he produced some work on enamel.

Grapes, first planted in the 1760s, led to the modern grape and wine industry of the town and also led to the annual grape festival which began in 1861, one of which was broadcast on the World Food Network.

His name is a play on the surveyors Mason and Dixon who drew the border between Maryland and Pannsylvania in the 1760s known as the Mason-Dixon Line.

The student body was caught up in the rebellious spirit of the 1760s, resolving to drink no " foreign spiritous Liquors any more " and declaiming in chapel against the British Parliament, and petitioning the Corporation with their grievances, insisting on the removal of the disciplinarian Clap.

Alton Towers grew into a collection of gardens: a Swiss Cottage, a Stonehenge, a Dutch garden, a Pagoda Fountain, said to be based on the To Ho pagoda in Canton, Lysicrates ' Choragic Monument from Athens ( a feature in English gardens since the 1760s ), domed glasshouses ( originally gilded ), even a fairly large Matterhorn as a backing to one of England's earliest Alpine gardens.