March - Zong Massacre: the case of a British slave-trader who threw 133 slaves overboard in order to claim on the insurance causes outrage amongst Abolitionists and creates new support for their cause.[3]
Summer - a sulphurous haze from the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland thought to have caused the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Britain.[5]
3 September - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain and the United States sign the Treaty of Paris ending the war. Britain also signs further treaties to end hostilities with France, Spain and the Netherlands.[1]
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