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Judith Hathaway

Female 1760 - 1779  (19 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1760 
  • 1760: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
1761 
  • 1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
1764 
  • 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
1767 
  • 1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
1768 
  • 1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
1769 
  • 1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
1774 
  • 1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
1775 
  • 1775: American Revolution: English Colonists vs Great Britain 1775-1783.
  • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  • 1775: Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
1776 
  • 1776: USA: signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine.
10 1779 
  • 1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.