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The Seven Years' War (also called the "French and Indian War") ends.

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The British Crown issues the Proclamation Line of 1763, forbidding colonists from settling west of the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. English settler-colonists ignore this and move into Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and other western regions.