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EVENTS

March 5 - British troops in Boston fire on civilians, and five die in the Boston Massacre .

December - Samuel Hearne departs on his third voyage of discovery

The city of Saint-Eustache, Quebec is established

BIRTHS

April 7 - William Wordsworth , in Cockermouth , England

April 30 - David Thompson , in London , England

May 15 - Ezekiel Hart , in Trois-Rivières, Quebec

June 4 (baptised) - William Carson , in Kirkcudbright , Scotland

October 23 - George Ramsay, 9th Earl Of Dalhousie

William Allan , near Huntly, Scotland

DEATHS

February 12 - Christopher Middleton , Hudson's Bay Company captain