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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone]], a [[polygar]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], raises slogans and launches a rebellion against [[Company rule in India]] due to his opposition to the [[East India Company]]'s tax collection policies.
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas Walker (explorer)|Dr. Thomas Walker]] and five other men (Ambrose Powell, Colby Chew, William Tomlinson, Henry Lawless and John Hughes) cross through the [[Cumberland Gap]], a mountain pass through the [[Appalachian Mountains]], to become the first white people to venture into territories that had been inhabited exclusively by various Native American tribes.<ref>Henry P. Scalf, ''Kentucky's Last Frontier'' (The Overmountain Press, 2000) pp. 33-34.</ref> On April 17, Walker's party continues through what is now [[Kentucky]] and locates the [[Cumberland River]], which Walker names in honor of [[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]].
* [[April 14]] 
**A group of enslaved West African, bound for the Americas, successfully overpowers the crew of the British slaver ship ''Snow Ann'', imprisons the survivors, and then navigates the vessel back to [[Cape Lopez]] in [[Gabon]].<ref>"Antislavery Movements", by Marie-Annick Gournet, in ''France and the Americas'', ed. by Bill Marshall (ABC-CLIO, 2005) p. 77.</ref>  Upon regaining their freedom, the rebels leave the survivors on the Gabonese coast.
**The [[Viceroy of New Spain]], [[Juan Francisco de Güemes, 1st Count of Revillagigedo|Juan Francisco de Güemes]], issues a notice to the missionaries in [[Nuevo Santander]] (which includes parts of what are now the U.S. state of [[Texas]], including [[San Antonio]], and the Mexican state of [[Tamaulipas]]) to work peacefully to convert the indigenous [[Karankawa people]] to Roman Catholicism.<ref>Herbert Eugene Bolton, ''Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century— Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration'' (University of California Press, 1915) p. 303.</ref>
* [[April 25]] &ndash; The [[Acadian]] settlement in [[Beaubassin]], [[Nova Scotia]], is burnt by the French army, and the population is forcibly relocated, after France and Great Britain agree that the [[Missaguash River]] should be the new boundary between peninsular British Nova Scotia and the mainland remnant of French Acadia (now [[New Brunswick]]).<ref>A. J. B. Johnston, ''Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2007) p. 60.</ref>
* [[May 16]] &ndash; Two weeks after police in Paris arrest six teenagers for gambling in the suburb of [[Saint-Laurent, Paris|Saint-Laurent]], rioting breaks out when a rumor spreads that plainclothes policemen are hauling off small children between the ages of five and ten years old, in order to provide blood to an ailing aristocrat.<ref>"Child Abduction Panic", in ''Outbreak!: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior'', ed. by Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew (Anomalist Books, LLC, 2009) pp. 83-84.</ref>  Over the next two weeks, rioting breaks out in other sections of Paris.  Police are attacked, including one who is beaten to death by the mob, until order is restored and police reforms are announced.<ref>Henri Martin, ''The Decline of the French Monarchy'' (Walker, Fuller and Company, 1866) p. 395.</ref>
* [[June 19]] &ndash; At a time when mountain climbing is still relatively uncommon, [[Eggert Ólafsson]] and Bjarni Pálsson scale their first peak, the {{convert|4892|foot}} high Icelandic volcano, [[Hekla]].<ref>Halldór Hermannsson, ''Islandica: An Annual Relating to Iceland and the Fiske Icelandic Collection in Cornell University Library'' (Cornell University Library, 1922) p. 23.</ref>
* [[June 24]] &ndash; Parliament passes Britain's [[Iron Act]], designed to restrict American manufactured goods by prohibiting additional ironworking businesses from producing finished goods.  At the same time, import taxes on raw iron from America are lifted in order to give British manufacturers additional material for production.<ref>Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom, ''The Industrial Revolution in America'' (ABC-CLIO, 2005) pp. 4-5.</ref>  By 1775, the North American colonies have surpassed England and Wales in iron production and have become the world's third largest producer of iron.
* [[June 29]] &ndash; An attempt in [[Lima]] to begin a native uprising against Spanish colonial authorities in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]] is discovered and thwarted.<ref name=Duenas>Alcira Duenas, ''Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"'' (University Press of Colorado, 2011).</ref>  One of the conspirators, Francisco Garcia Jimenez, escapes to [[Huarochirí District|Huarochirí]] and kills dozens of Spaniards on July 25.