April 19 –
Teedyuscung, known as the "King of the Delaware Indians" (the
Lenape tribe) is assassinated by arsonists who burn down his home in
Pennsylvania while he is sleeping, in an apparent retaliation for signing the
Treaty of Easton to relinquish Lenape claims to the Province of New Jersey.[5]
April 23 – The controversial Issue 45 of
John Wilkes's satirical newspaper The North Briton is published as a response to a speech four days earlier by King George III praising the end of the Seven Years' War.[6] In what will become a test case for
freedom of speech, Wilkes, a member of Parliament, is arrested for
libel of the King and imprisoned, then exiled to France.
April 27 – Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French,
Pontiac, chief of the
Odawa people, convenes a conference near
Detroit and convinces the leaders of 17 other nations of the need to attack British outposts.[7]
May 7 – Chief Pontiac begins "
Pontiac's War" by attacking the British garrison at
Fort Detroit, but the surprise attack is given away by a young native girl who informs the British of the plan.[7] Two days later he begins the
Siege of Fort Detroit.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
^Pannill Camp, The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p148
^Richard Archer, As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2010) p1
^ F. Murray Greenwood and Beverley Boissery, Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953 (Dundurn, 2000) p. 54
^Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2011) p116
^Amelia Rauser, Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-century English Prints (University of Delaware Press, 2008) p51
^
abWalter S. Dunn, People of the American Frontier: The Coming of the American Revolution (Greenwood, 2005) p37
April 19 –
Teedyuscung, known as the "King of the Delaware Indians" (the
Lenape tribe) is assassinated by arsonists who burn down his home in
Pennsylvania while he is sleeping, in an apparent retaliation for signing the
Treaty of Easton to relinquish Lenape claims to the Province of New Jersey.[5]
April 23 – The controversial Issue 45 of
John Wilkes's satirical newspaper The North Briton is published as a response to a speech four days earlier by King George III praising the end of the Seven Years' War.[6] In what will become a test case for
freedom of speech, Wilkes, a member of Parliament, is arrested for
libel of the King and imprisoned, then exiled to France.
April 27 – Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French,
Pontiac, chief of the
Odawa people, convenes a conference near
Detroit and convinces the leaders of 17 other nations of the need to attack British outposts.[7]
May 7 – Chief Pontiac begins "
Pontiac's War" by attacking the British garrison at
Fort Detroit, but the surprise attack is given away by a young native girl who informs the British of the plan.[7] Two days later he begins the
Siege of Fort Detroit.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
^Pannill Camp, The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p148
^Richard Archer, As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2010) p1
^ F. Murray Greenwood and Beverley Boissery, Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953 (Dundurn, 2000) p. 54
^Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2011) p116
^Amelia Rauser, Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-century English Prints (University of Delaware Press, 2008) p51
^
abWalter S. Dunn, People of the American Frontier: The Coming of the American Revolution (Greenwood, 2005) p37