5h 26min, mar 23, 1765 y - Parliament passes The Stamp Act as a means to pay for British troops on the American frontier. Colonists violently protest the measure.
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it was a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years War
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5h 26min, mar 23, 1765 y
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~ 260 years ago