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•  February 10, 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
•  May 7, 1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac’s Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the “Conspiracy of Pontiac” by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
•  May 18, 1763 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
•  June 2, 1763 – Pontiac’s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
•  June 28, 1763 – A massive earthquake occurs on the same day in Komárom in Hungary, in Komárno in Slovakia and in Zsámbék in Hungary.
•  August 5, 1763 – Pontiac’s War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac’s Indians at Bushy Run.
•  September 1, 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
•  October 7, 1763 – George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
•  December 2, 1763 – Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.

•  January 8, 1763 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
•  February 1, 1763 – Thomas Campbell, Irish theologian (d. 1854)
•  March 13, 1763 – Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)
•  May 28, 1763 – Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (d. 1811)
•  June 20, 1763 – Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (d. 1798)
•  June 22, 1763 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French composer (d. 1817)
•  June 23, 1763 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I Bonaparte (d. 1814)
•  July 17, 1763 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman (d. 1848)
•  July 30, 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855)
•  October 24, 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)