April–June April 13 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Bergen: A French army defeats Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick in Hesse. May 1 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery in England. May 10 – The Macedonian Hussar Regiment is formed and starts to assist the Russian Empire in the Seven Years' War. June 4 – After arriving at Canada, the Royal Navy fleet sails out of British-controlled Halifax toward the St. Lawrence River to prepare the invasion of French Quebec.Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard, Colonial America: A History to 1763 (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) June 15 – The first vascular surgery in history is performed by a Dr. Hallowell (whose first name has been lost) at Newcastle upon Tyne in England, who uses suture repair rather than a tying off with a ligature to repair an aneurysm on a patient's brachial artery. The case is reported in 1761 by Dr. Richard Lambert in the paper "A new technique of treating an aneurysm", published in the journal Medical Observations and Inquiries."History of Microsurery", by Yoshikazu Ikuta, in Telemicrosurgery: Robot Assisted Microsurgery (Springer, 2012) p5 The new procedure of reconstructing a damaged artery replaces the practice of ligation that had risked the amputation of a limb or organ failure.Steven G. Friedman, MD, A History of Vascular Surgery (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) p ix June 26 – After their fleet finishes navigation of the St. Lawrence and arriving at the Île d'Orléans, British troops go ashore on France's North American territory and begin the siege of Quebec City.
April–June April 13 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Bergen: A French army defeats Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick in Hesse. May 1 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery in England. May 10 – The Macedonian Hussar Regiment is formed and starts to assist the Russian Empire in the Seven Years' War. June 4 – After arriving at Canada, the Royal Navy fleet sails out o.f British-controlled Halifax toward the St. Lawrence River to prepare the invasion of French Quebec.Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard, Colonial America: A History to 1763 (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) June 15 – The first vascular surgery in history is performed by a Dr. Hallowell (whose first name has been lost) at Newcastle upon Tyne in England, who uses suture repair rather than a tying off with a ligature to repair an aneurysm on a patient's brachial artery. The case is reported in 1761 by Dr. Richard Lambert in the paper "A new technique of treating an aneurysm", published in the journal Medical Observations and Inquiries."History of Microsurery", by Yoshikazu Ikuta, in Telemicrosurgery: Robot Assisted Microsurgery (Springer, 2012) p5 The new procedure of reconstructing a damaged artery replaces the practice of ligation that had risked the amputation of a limb or organ failure.Steven G Friedman, MD, A History of Vascular Surgery (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) p ix June 26 – After their fleet finishes navigation of the St. Lawrence and arriving at the Île d'Orléans, British troops go ashore on France's North American territory and begin the siege of Quebec City.