Documents in Year 1763                     

Links of Interest:

• King George III, British Monarch over American Colonies

• French and Indian War Timeline 1754-1763

Balancing the British Budget after the French and Indian War

Source: Barbier, Brooke. Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire. Charleston: The History Press, 2017.

King George III appointed George Grenville as Prime Minister of Great Britain in April 1763. He was "tasked with managing Great Britain's budget after the French and Indian War, which was no small job given its immense debt (Barbier, 22)."