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New France in 1750, photo credit to JF Lepage

In the year 1763, the Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Year’s War, marking the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe. France cedes Canada (New France) to Great Britain (Feb 10), Chief Pontiac of the Odawa people begins “Pontiac’s War” in the Great Lakes region, resulting later in British policy changes (May 7), Touro Synagogue, the oldest synague bulding in the U.S., is dedicated in Newport, Rhode Island (Dec 2), Joseph Haydn writes his Symphony No. 13 - and all these fine people were born:

1763-0121 Augustin Robespierre* lawyer/younger brother of the French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre - Arras, Artois, France (1794/31)
1763-0126 Charles XIV John of Sweden* (b Jean Bernadotte) King of Sweden (1818-1844)/the first in the line of Bernadottes - Pau, Bearn, Kingdom of France (1844/81)

1763-0201 Thomas Campbell* Presbyterian minister / reformist - County Down, Ireland (1854/90)
1763-0203 Caroline von Wolzogen* writer - Rudolstadt,  German Empire (1847/83)

1763-0306 Jean Xavier Lefèvre* French clarinettist/conductor - Lausanne, Switzerland (1829/66)
1763-0309 William Cobbett* pamphleteer/journalist/MP - Farnham, Surrey, England (1835/72)

1763-0623 Empress Joséphine* the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte - Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique (1814/50)

1763-0717 John Jacob Astor* German American businessman/real estate mogul/investor - Walldorf, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (1848/84)

1763-0808 Charles Bulfinch* architect - Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1844/80)
1763-0816 Prince Frederick* Duke of York and Albany - St. James’s Palace, London, England (1827/63)

1763-1015 Edward FitzGerald* nobleman/revolutionary - Carton House, County Kildare, Ireland (1798/34)

1763-1223 John Kinzie* fur traderer/among the first permanent European settlers in Chicago - Quebec City, Province of Canada (1828/64)
1763-1228 John Molson* founder of Molson brewery/Montreal entrepreneur/steamship pioneer - Moulton, Lincolnshire, England (1836/)

Updated 4.3.2021
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