17h 48min, apr 5, 1764 y - Sugar Act
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Parliament passed a modified version of Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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17h 48min, apr 5, 1764 y
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~ 261 years ago
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