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1763: After the Seven Years War, the Treaty of Paris was signed with France ceding Canada to Britain.

1824: Samuel Plimsoll, naval reformer, was born in Bristol. He devised the Plimsoll Line, a regulation for the weight ships might safely carry. Rope sandals for sailors were also named after him.

1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1894: Harold Macmillan, Tory prime minister 1957/63 and later 1st Earl of Stockton, was born.

1898: Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and poet, was born in Augsburg, Bavaria.

1913: The bodies of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert ...

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