Events

• July 4 - Near Fort Ticonderoga
  Fort Ticonderoga
  Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century fort built by the Canadians and the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States...
  
  , General Burgoyne offers condonement if colonists lay down their arms.
• September 19 - General Burgoyne's Indian and French allies desert at the battle of Stillwater.
• October 16 - Articles of Capitulation of 5,782 British, under Burgoyne are written.
• October 17 - Though aware of approaching relief, Burgoyne, having promised to capitulate, and fearing annihilation by a threatened attack, signs the capitulation. During its first session the Canadian Council passes sixteen ordinances, adopts English Commercial law, and constitutes itself a Court of Appeal, with final resort to the Privy Council
  Privy council
  A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on...
  
   in England.

Full date unknown

• In the House of Lords
  House of Lords
  The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
  
  , Lord Camden
  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl of Camden...
  
   declares: "If I were an American, I should resist to the last such manifest exertions of tyranny, violence and injustice."
• David Thompson
  David Thompson (explorer)
  David Thompson was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer"...
  
  enters Grey Coat School

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