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George the third becomes king of great britain lreland and 1.6 million colonists liaing in America
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A newspaper the Boston Gazette publishes " The Liberty Song " possibly America first patriotic song
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Benjamin Franklin invents the first Bifocal lenses for eye glasses
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Henry William stiegel opens his famous American glassmaking works in Manheim Pennsylvania
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British parliament passes the stamp act levying a tax on all newpapers legal documents, pamhlets almanacsand playing cards by reauiring that they be bear a stamp