1760

About 1760


Year '1760' ('MDCCLX') was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents
Events of 1760
January - June
July - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
Deaths

Events of 1760


January - June

'June 4': Evangeline and ''Great Upheaval.


★ January 9 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.

★ January 28 -- Benning Wentworth creates the New Hampshire Grant of Pownal, Vermont.

★ February 27 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Cherokee natives allied with French forces attack a North Carolina militia stationed at Fort Dobbs in the western part of the province. The attack is repelled by the militia.

★ March 20 - The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

★ June 4 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
July - December


★ July 8 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Battle of the Ristigouche: British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.

★ July 19 - A formal request is made to the Spanish government as to allow the founding of the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

★ July 31 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Warburg: The Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick storms Warburg, with a heroic role being played by the English commander Lord Granby.
August 15: Frederick the Great.


★ August 15 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Legnica: By a series of brilliant maneuvers, Frederick the Great manages to defeat the Austrian army of Marshal Laudon before it can unite with that of Marshal Daun.

★ August 21 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.

★ 18 September - The town (later city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is founded.

★ October 9 - Russian troops enter Berlin, but soon withdraw.

★ October 16 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Kloster-Kamp: Ferdinand of Brunswick is beaten back from the Rhine by a French army.

★ October 25 - Death of George II of Great Britain. His grandson George III ascends to the throne.

★ November 3 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Torgau: In another extremely hard Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.
Undated

1760: Abu Dhabi is founded.


★ Abu Dhabi is founded. (Approximate date)

★ Tacky's rebellion occurs in Jamaica.

★ Publication of Dr. James Fordyce's two-volume compendium ''Sermons for Young Women''.

★ The dockyards of Portsmouth catch fire.

Ongoing events



★ French and Indian War (1754-1763)

★ Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births



★ January 3 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (died 1835)

★ March 1 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (died 1794)

★ March 10 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)

★ April 30 - Joseph Souham, French general (died 1837)

★ May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)

★ May 28 - Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (died 1794)

★ June 12 - Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (died 1797)

★ August 22 - Pope Leo XII (died 1829)

★ September 14 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (died 1842)

★ October 27 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (died 1831)

★ December 17 - Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (died 1827)

★ ''date unknown'' - Louise Françoise Contat, French actress (died 1813)

★ ''probable'' - Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (died 1802)
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Deaths



★ April 10 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (born 1687)

★ May 5 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (born 1720)

★ May 9 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (born 1700)

★ May 15 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (born 1711)

★ May 22 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (born 1700)

★ June 13 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (born March 27, 1696)

★ July 13 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (born 1696)

★ September 11 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (born 1704)

★ October 15 - Nicolas d'Assas, a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne (b. 1733)

★ October 25 - King George II of Great Britain (born 1683)
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