1735
| 1735 • Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true. |
1762
Age: 27y
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birth of childAlexander Fraser McDonald Ardnamurchan, Argylshire, Scotland ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1762 • Catherine II becomes empress of Russia upon the deposition of her husband Peter III. The incipient Russo-Prussian alliance falls apart, but Russia does not rejoin the war. |