[Game] Count to 10,000

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1771 Plague Riot in Moscow resulting from an outbreak of bubonic plague which kills 57,000.

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1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.

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1773 Boston Tea Party: A group of Americans, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the British East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor.

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1774 - The First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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1775 Pope Pius VI succeeds Pope Clement XIV as the 250th pope. Lexington and Concord.

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1776 - The American Revolution...

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1777 Battle of Princeton: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.

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1778 - Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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1779 American Revolutionary War: In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on England.

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1780 -  Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York.

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1781 The United States Continental Congress implements the Articles of Confederation, forming its Perpetual Union as the United States in Congress Assembled.

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1782 -  American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles.

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1783 American Revolutionary War: Britain acknowledges the United States independence.

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1784: The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War, with the signature of President of Congress Thomas Mifflin.

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1785 The University of Georgia is founded.