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The Seven Years' War lasted for seven years, from 1756 to 1763.
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history of the world
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A comet returns exactly at the time predicted by English astronomer Edmond Halley, and is subsequently known by his name
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Francisco de Goya is appointed painter to the king of Spain, Charles III
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The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours
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Oberlin College in Ohio becomes the first in the USA to enroll women as degree students.
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US social reformer Catherine Beecher publishes an influential book to empower women, "Treatise on Domestic Economy"
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US author Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an early and thoughtful feminist study of women's place in society
