1761

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Year '1761' ('MDCCLXI') was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1761

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1761

January - June

★ January 14 - Third Battle of Panipat was fought between Marathas and Afghans.

★ January 16 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.

★ February 8 - An earthquake in London breaks chimneys in Limehouse and Poplar.

★ March 8 - A second earthquake occurs in North London, Hampstead and Highgate.

★ June 6 - A transit of Venus occurred, and was observed from 120 locations around the Earth.

July - December

★ September 19 - Slave trade to and within Portugal mainland is forbidden.

★ December 16 - Seven Years' War: After four months of siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

Undated

★ In Dutch Guyana, a "state" formed by escaped slaves signs a treaty with the local governor.

★ Opening of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

★ The tune to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in France.

Ongoing events

★ French and Indian War (1754–1763)

★ Seven Years' War (1756–1763)

Births

★ January 17 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (died 1832)

★ February 1 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (died 1836)

★ February 16 - Charles Pichegru, French general (died 1804)

★ March 6 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French general (died 1828)

★ May 3 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (died 1819)

★ October 27 - Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist (died 1823)

★ November 4 - Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver of medals (died 1822)

★ November 13 - John Moore, British general (died 1809)

★ November 20 - Pope Pius VIII (died 1850)

★ December 1 - Marie Tussaud, French wax modeller (died 1850)

★ ''date unknown'' - Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor (died 1842)
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Deaths

★ January 4 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (born 1677)

★ January 10 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (born 1711)

★ February 1 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (born 1682)

★ April 4 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (born 1722)

★ April 9 - William Law, English minister (born 1686)

★ April 15 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (born 1682)

★ April 17 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (born c.1702)

★ May 14 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (born 1710)

★ June 2 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (born 1685)

★ July 4 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (born 1689)

★ July 9 - Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (born 1704)

★ July 13 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (born 1712)

★ August 3 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (born 1691)

★ September 8 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (born 1698)

★ November 30 - John Dollond, English optician (born 1706)

★ December 23 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy (born c.1725)
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