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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and [[Prussia]] agree to begin peace negotiations to end the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref>[[Basil Williams (historian)|Basil Williams]], ''The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2'' (Frank Cass & Co., 1913, reprinted by Routledge, 2014) p80</ref>
* [[April 7]] &ndash; '[[Tacky's War]]', a [[slave rebellion]], begins in [[Colony of Jamaica|Jamaica]] and lasts for 18 months. During the uprising, 60 white residents are killed and more than 400 black rebels die in the suppression of the revolt. Another 500 are deported to British Honduras.<ref>Candace Ward, ''Desire and Disorder: Fevers, Fictions, and Feeling in English Georgian Culture'' (Bucknell University Press, 2007) p179</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[France]]'s Minister of the Navy [[Nicolas René Berryer]] finally receives permission to send ships to assist French forces at Quebec, and a fleet of six ships under the command of Captain François Chenard de la Giraudais of the {{ship|French frigate|Machault|1757|6}} departs [[Bordeaux]], albeit too late to prevent the loss of New France to the British.<ref name=Machault>"Machault", in ''Warships of the World to 1900'', ed. by Lincoln P. Paine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000) pp99-100</ref>
* [[April 11]] &ndash; The Burmese Army, under the command of King [[Alaungpaya]], reaches the outskirts of [[Thailand|Siam]]'s capital, [[Ayutthaya (city)|Ayutthaya]], but then retreats rather than laying siege to the city.<ref name=Topich> William J. Topich and Keith A. Leitich, ''The History of Myanmar'' (ABC-CLIO, 2013) pp38-39</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; Two of six French ships run into a British blockade led by Britain's Admiral [[Edward Boscawen]]. Of the remaining four, one sinks before it can reach North America.<ref name=Machault/>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; France's Marshal [[François Gaston de Lévis]] departs from [[Montreal]] up the [[St. Lawrence River]] with 7,000 troops on a plan to retake [[Quebec City]] from the British.<ref name=Williams> Paul Williams, ''Frontier Forts Under Fire: The Attacks on Fort William Henry (1757) and Fort Phil Kearny (1866)'' (McFarland, 2017) p101</ref>
* [[April 22]] &ndash; Belgian entertainer Joseph Mervin is said to have given the first demonstration of [[roller skates]], in a performance at the Carlisle House in London, but the stunt ends in disaster.<ref>William Hartston, ''The Encyclopedia of Useless Information'' (Sourcebooks, 2007)</ref>
* [[April 26]] &ndash; Marshal Lévis and his troops land at [[Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures]], adjacent to [[Quebec City]], and prepares to lay siege to the British occupying force.<ref name=Williams/>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; British Army Brigadier General [[James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721)|James Murray]] marches a force of 3,500 men toward Saint-Augustin to confront Marshal Lévis and the French Army.<ref name=Williams/>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; British defenders and the French Army clash at the [[Battle of Sainte-Foy]] to determine the future control of [[Quebec]]. General Murray is forced to retreat after the British suffer 259 deaths and 845 wounded, while the French under Marshal Lévis suffer 193 deaths and 640 wounded.<ref>Raymond B. Blake, et al., ''Conflict and Compromise: Pre-Confederation Canada'' (University of Toronto Press, 2012) p104</ref>
* [[April 29]] &ndash; Representatives of the remaining Penobscot Indian tribes in Maine and New Brunswick make peace with the British at [[Fort Point, Newfoundland and Labrador|Fort Pownal]] in Newfoundland.<ref name="Federal"> Federal Writers Project, ''Maine: A Guide 'Down East'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1937) p37</ref> 
* [[April 30]] &ndash; Swiss mathematician [[Daniel Bernoulli]] presents a paper at the [[French Academy of Sciences]] in [[Paris]] in which "a mathematical model was used for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease."<ref>Charles Roberts, ''Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing'' (CRC Press, 2011) pp139-140</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; King Alaungpaya of Burma dies during a retreat from Ayutthaya after stopping at the village of Kinywa while en route to [[Martaban]].  His son [[Naungdawgyi]] becomes the new [[King of Burma]].<ref name=Topich/>
* [[May 16]] &ndash; Three British Royal Navy ships under the command of Commodore [[Robert Swanton]] on {{HMS|Vanguard|1748|6}} arrive to break the [[Siege of Quebec (1760)|siege of Quebec]] before Marshal Lévis can recapture the city from the British.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; Captain Giraudais's French fleet reaches the [[Gaspé Peninsula]] of northeast Quebec and captures seven British merchant ships, but Giraudais learns that the British have already preceded him up the St. Lawrence River and diverts to [[Chaleur Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)|Chaleur Bay]] at [[Newfoundland]].<ref name=Machault/>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Expulsion of the Acadians]]: [[New England]] planters arrive to claim land in [[Nova Scotia]] taken from the [[Acadians]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Robert Rogers (soldier)|Robert Rogers]] and his [[Rogers' Rangers|Rangers]] launch a strike from [[Lake Champlain]] against French military posts along the [[Richelieu River]] – they [[Sainte-Thérèse Raid|strike]] at [[Fort Sainte Thérèse]] and destroy the settlement.
* [[June 19]] &ndash; The British create [[Cumberland County, Maine|Cumberland County]] and [[Lincoln County, Maine|Lincoln County]] in [[Maine]].<ref name="Federal"/> 
* [[June 22]] &ndash; Britain's Captain [[John Byron]], commanding HMS ''Fame'', locates France's Captain Giraudais but runs aground on June 25 before it can attack.<ref name=Machault/>