The Parliament of Great Britain passes an act prohibiting the British government from accepting plunder taken by privateers.
The Braintree Instructions was a document sent on September 24, 1765 by the town meeting of Braintree, Massachusetts to the town's representative at the Massachusetts General Court, or legislature, which instructed the representative to oppose the Stamp Act, a tax regime which had recently been adopted by the British Parliament in London.
The Cathedral Statutes Act 1707 (6 Ann c 75) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Cestui que Vie Act 1707 (6 Ann c 72) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782 (22 Geo. III, c. 82) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Corporations Act 1718 (5 Geo. I, c. 6) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Diplomatic Privileges Act 1708 (7 Ann c 12) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Justices Commitment Act 1741 (15 Geo. II, c.24) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1742 and formally repealed in 1914.
In the wake of the French Revolution of 1789, Radical organisations such as the London Corresponding Society sprang up to press for parliamentary reform, but as the Napoleonic Wars developed the government took extensive repressive measures against feared domestic unrest aping the democratic and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution and progress toward reform was stalled for decades.
The Paymaster General Act 1782 (22 Geo. III, c. 81) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Presentation of Benefices Act 1713 (13 Ann c 13) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1707 (6 Ann c 54) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The Repeal of Certain Laws Act 1772 (12 Geo. III, c. 71) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
In 1773, Sheffield's silversmiths joined with those of Birmingham to petition Parliament for the establishment of Assay Offices in their respective cities.
The Worsted Act 1776 (17 Geo 3 c 11) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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17 March - Parliament passes a bill to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.
The Committee of One Hundred still considered itself loyal to the British Crown, but was instead opposed to the laws of the Parliament of Great Britain which they considered unconstitutional because they had no representation in it.
Major-General Nisbet Balfour (Dunbog, 1743 – 10 October 1823, Dunbog) was a British soldier in the American War of Independence and later a Scottish Member of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament.
In late 1775, the Parliament of Great Britain, under Lord North, First Lord of the Treasury, decided that sterner measures would be taken to subdue the rebellion now underway in the 13 American colonies.
He later went on to steer through Parliament the legislation that finally led, almost twenty years later, to the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.