1760

1760 (MDCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1760th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 760th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1760, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1760 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1760
MDCCLX
Ab urbe condita2513
Armenian calendar1209
ԹՎ ՌՄԹ
Assyrian calendar6510
Balinese saka calendar1681–1682
Bengali calendar1167
Berber calendar2710
British Regnal year33 Geo. 2  1 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2304
Burmese calendar1122
Byzantine calendar7268–7269
Chinese calendar己卯(Earth Rabbit)
4456 or 4396
     to 
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4457 or 4397
Coptic calendar1476–1477
Discordian calendar2926
Ethiopian calendar1752–1753
Hebrew calendar5520–5521
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1816–1817
 - Shaka Samvat1681–1682
 - Kali Yuga4860–4861
Holocene calendar11760
Igbo calendar760–761
Iranian calendar1138–1139
Islamic calendar1173–1174
Japanese calendarHōreki 10
(宝暦10年)
Javanese calendar1685–1686
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4093
Minguo calendar152 before ROC
民前152年
Nanakshahi calendar292
Thai solar calendar2302–2303
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1886 or 1505 or 733
     to 
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1887 or 1506 or 734

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

  • October 5 The wedding of Princess Isabella of Parma and Prince Joseph of Austria takes place at Hofburg Palace's Redoute Hall (Redoutensaele), at the former imperial palace in Vienna.[16]
  • October 9 Seven Years' War: Russian troops enter Berlin.
  • October 16 Seven Years' War: Battle of Kloster-Kamp Ferdinand of Brunswick is beaten back from the Rhine by a French army.
  • October 25 George II of Great Britain dies; his 22-year-old grandson George, Prince of Wales, succeeds to the throne as King George III and reigns for 59 years until his death on January 29, 1820.
  • November 3 Seven Years' War: Battle of Torgau In another extremely hard battle, Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.
  • November 29 French Army Colonel François-Marie Picoté de Belestre formally surrenders Detroit to British Army Major Robert Rogers, and the British Union Jack is raised over Fort Detroit.[17]
  • December 4 For the first time since the surrender of Fort Detroit by France, British authorities meet nearby at a Native American council house the site with delegates from various Indian tribes that had fought as allies of the French Army, such as the Wyandot and Ottawa Indians, and with tribes that had formerly been allies of the British. The European and Native American representatives open the peace conference with the presentation by the Indians to the British of a wampum belt, and the pronouncement from the principal chief that "The ancient friendship is now renewed, and I wash the blood off the earth that had been shed during the present war, that you may bury the war hatchet in the bottomless pit."[18]
  • December 6 The siege of Pondicherry, a stronghold of France in India, is begun by British Army Lieutenant General Eyre Coote. The French commander, General Thomas Lally, is finally forced to surrender Pondicherry to the British on January 15, 1761.[19]
  • December 18 In the wake of Tacky's War by African-born rebels, the Assembly of the British colony of Jamaica outlaws the African religious practice of obeah, with penalties ranging from banishment from the colony to execution. The legislation specifically bans use of contraband associated with obeah, including "animal blood, feathers, parrots' beaks, dogs' teeth, alligators' teeth, broken bottles, grave dirt, rum, and eggshells".[20]

Date unknown

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 320. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. Rodger, N. A. M. (2006). The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815. London: Penguin Books; National Maritime Museum. p. 283. ISBN 0-14-102690-1.
  3. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p54
  4. Basil Williams, The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2 (Frank Cass & Co., 1913, reprinted by Routledge, 2014) p80
  5. Candace Ward, Desire and Disorder: Fevers, Fictions, and Feeling in English Georgian Culture (Bucknell University Press, 2007) p179
  6. "Machault", in Warships of the World to 1900, ed. by Lincoln P. Paine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000) pp99-100
  7. William J. Topich and Keith A. Leitich, The History of Myanmar (ABC-CLIO, 2013) pp38-39
  8. Paul Williams, Frontier Forts Under Fire: The Attacks on Fort William Henry (1757) and Fort Phil Kearny (1866) (McFarland, 2017) p101
  9. William Hartston, The Encyclopedia of Useless Information (Sourcebooks, 2007)
  10. Raymond B. Blake, et al., Conflict and Compromise: Pre-Confederation Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2012) p104
  11. Federal Writers Project, Maine: A Guide 'Down East (Houghton Mifflin, 1937) p37
  12. Charles Roberts, Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing (CRC Press, 2011) pp139-140
  13. "Portsmouth Dockyard". Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  14. "Chronology Of Events In Portsmouth 1700-1799". History In Portsmouth. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  15. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 222. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  16. "wedding-supper". www.google.com. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  17. Bill Loomis, On This Day in Detroit History (Arcadia Publishing, 2016) p188
  18. "1763 in Native American Country", by Ulrike Kirchberger, in Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building and International Relations from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War", ed. by Ute Planert and James Retallack (Cambridge University Press, 2017) p72
  19. "Carnatic Wars", in Wars That Changed History: 50 of the World's Greatest Conflicts, ed. by Spencer C. Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2015) p222
  20. Rebecca Shumway, Trevor R. Getz, Slavery and its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2017) p76
  21. "The story of Abu Dhabi". Retrieved July 21, 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.