1760

January 8

• Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth. [1]

January 9

• Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat. [1]

January 18

• Claudio Casciolini composer, dies at age 62. [1]

January 22

• Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French. [1]

February 14

• François Collin de Blamont composer, dies at age 69. [1]

February 16

• Native American hostages killed in Fort Prince George South Carolina. [1]

March 5

• Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg. [1]

March 14

• Anton Filtz composer, dies at age 26. [1]

March 20

• Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings. [1]

April 10

• Gerard George Clifford head of East-Indian Company, dies at age 75. [1]

April 12

• Baron Ernst Gottlieb composer, dies at age 64. [1]

April 16

• Laurence 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward. [1]

May 9

• Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf Austrian composer, dies at age 59. [1]

May 10

• Johann Christoph Graupner composer, dies at age 77. [1]

June 10

• New York passes first effective law regulating practice of medicine. [1]

June 23

• Battle of Landshut, Silesia. [1]

October 25

• Death of King George II of England. [309.71]
• George III ascends the British throne. [1] [309.71]

December 14

• Kacic Miosic Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies. [1]

December 25

• Jupter Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Thought". [1]

1761

January 3

• Willem de Fesch Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at age 73. [1]

January 4

• Stephen Hales English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at age 83. [1]

January 7

• Battle at Panipat, India; Afghan army beats Mahratten. [1]

February 12

• Death of Richard "Beau" Nash, master of ceremonies of Bath resort, at age 86. [187.134]

February 15

• Carlo Cecere composer, dies at age 54. [1]

March 7

• Antonio Palella composer, dies at age 68. [1]

March 27

• Johann Ludwig Steiner composer, dies at age 72. [1]

April 9

• William Law theologian, dies. [1]

May 14

• Thomas Simpson English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at age 50. [1]

May 15

• Jacob Mossel Governor-General (Dutch East Indies), dies at age 56. [1]

May 22

• First life insurance policy in US, issued in Philadelphia. [1]

December 16

• Russian army occupies Kolberg. [1]

December 25

• Elisabeth Petrovna tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about age 51. [1]
• Empress Elizabeth dies. [1]

1762

January 4

• England declares war on Spain and Naples. [1]

January 5

• Elisabeth Petrovna tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at age 52. [1]

January 13

• Leonhard Trautsch composer, dies at age 68. [1]

January 15

• Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City, New York. [1]

February 2

• Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes" premieres in London. [1]

February 11

• Johann Tobias Krebs composer, dies at age 71. [1]

February 12

• English fleet occupies Martinique. [1]
• Laurent Belissen composer, dies at age 68. [1]

March 17

• First Saint Patrick's Day parade in New York City. [1]

April 2

• In Bangladesh, a very destructive earthquake occurs. Sixty square miles are said to have been permanently submerged. [53]

April 5

• British take Grenada, West Indies, from French. [1]

April 23

• Johann Samuel Endler composer, dies at age 67. [1]

April 24

• Russia and Prussia signs peace treaty. [1]

May 5

• Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty. [1]

May 16

• Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer, dies at age 86. [1]

May 22

• Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty. [1]

May 24

• Joseph Umstatt composer, dies at age 51. [1]

July 13

• James Bradley third Astronomer Royal, dies. [1]

August 22

• First female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport Rhode Island, Mercury. [1]

October 5

• The opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna). [1]

November 3

• Spain acquires Louisiana. [1]

December 9

• British parliament accepts the Treaty of Paris. [1]

December 21

• James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts. [1]

December 31

• Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg. [1]

1763

January 2

• John Casteret Earl Granville English premier, dies at age 72. [1]

January 27

• John Theodor of Bavaria prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies. [1]

February 10

• Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England. [1]

February 12

• John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs. [1]

February 15

• Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg. [1]

April 30

• London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower. [1]

May 16

• Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London. [1]

November 15

• Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. [1]

December 2

• Carl August Thielo composer, dies at age 56. [1]
• Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue). [1]

1764

January 24

• Governor Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire. [1]

February 15

• Saint Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue. [1]

February 21

• John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women". [1]

March 17

• George Parker English astronomer, dies. [1]

March 30

• Pietro Antonio Locatelli Italian violinist/composer, dies at age 68. [1]

April 3

• Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king. [1]

April 14

• Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer, dies at age 84. [1]

April 15

• Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles Marquis de Pomador, dies. [1]

April 17

• Johann Mattheson German composer/musicologist, dies at age 82. [1]

April 27

• Jaime de Casellas composer, dies at age 73. [1]

May 3

• Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at age 53. [1]

May 5

• Smolny-institution forms in Saint Petersburg for noble girls. [1]

May 10

• Picander [Christian Henrici] German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies. [1]

October 25

• John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years). [1]

1765

January 4

• Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder composer, dies at age 39. [1]

January 11

• Frisia bans Voltaires "Traité sur la tolérance". [1]

January 12

• Johann Melchior Molter composer, dies at age 68. [1]

January 15

• Carlmann Kolb composer, dies at age 61. [1]

January 16

• Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major). [1]

February 9

• Elisabetta de Gambarini composer, dies at age 33. [1]

March 22

• The British government passes the Stamp Act, imposing a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the American colonies. [1] [129]

March 24

• Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. [1]

April 5

• Edward Young English poet (Love of Fame), dies at age 81. [1]

April 9

• Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at age 77. [1]

April 15

• Michail von Lomonosov Russian scholar/poet, dies at age 53. [1]

May 3

• First US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). [1]

May 7

• Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground. [1]

May 25

• Pierre-Joseph Le Blan composer, dies at age 53. [1]

May 29

• Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!". [1]

August 14

• Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree). [1]

October 7

• The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York. [1]

October 19

• Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote decl of rights and liberties. [1]

November 1

• Stamp Act goes into effect in the British colonies. [1]

November 23

• People of Frederick County Maryland refuse to pay England's Stamp tax. [1]

December 21

• Joseph Thaddäus Stammel Austrian sculptor, dies at age 70. [1]

December 25

• Antonio Tonelli composer, dies at age 79. [1]

1766

January 1

• Frans E Jacobus III Old Pretender, king of Great Britain/Ireland, dies. [1]
• James III Edward Old Pretender/king of Great Britain/Ireland, dies at age 77. [1]

January 14

• Frederik V king of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), dies at age 42. [1]

February 11

• Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia. [1]

February 14

• Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels. [1]

February 23

• Stanislaw Leszcynski duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies. [1]

February 26

• August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer, dies at age 30. [1]

March 3

• Gregor Joseph Werner composer, dies at age 73. [1]

March 5

• Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French. [1]

March 8

• Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces. [1]

March 17

• Britain repeals Stamp Act. [1]

March 18

• British Parliament reinstitutes the Stamp Act. [1]

March 25

• Johannes Ritschel composer, dies at age 26. [1]

April 7

• Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch classicist, dies at age 81. [1]

April 8

• First fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain. [1]

May 9

• John Byron back in England after trip around the world. [1]

November 25

• Pope Clement XIII warns On the dangers of anti-Christian writings. [1]

December 5

• London auctioneers Christie's hold their first sale. [1]

1767

March 20

• Firmin Abauzit French huguenot/scholar, dies at age 87. [1]

April 7

• Franz Sparry composer, dies at age 51. [1]

May 13

• Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus" premieres in Salzburg. [1]

May 14

• British government disbands Americans import duty on tea. [1]

May 18

• Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky composer, dies at age 28. [1]

June 29

• British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America. [1]

October 18

• Boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon. [1]

December 9

• Benedetto Alfieri Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies. [1]

December 16

• Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premieres. [1]

December 22

• John Newberry English publisher, dies. [1]

1768

January 1

• Jean-Laurent Krafft composer, dies at age 73. [1]

January 10

• Charles Cressent French court furniture maker, dies at age 82. [1]

January 28

• John Wainwright composer, dies at age 44. [1]

February 11

• Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes. [1]

February 15

• First mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia. [1]

February 20

• First American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania). [1]

March 3

• Nicola Antonio Porpora composer, dies at age 81. [1]

March 14

• Vigilio Blasio Faitello composer, dies at age 58. [1]

March 18

• Lawrence Sterne writer (Sentimental Journey France and Italy), dies. [1]

March 21

• Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51), dies at age 75. [1]

April 5

• First US Chamber of Commerce forms (New York City, New York). [1]

April 7

• Michel Mathieu composer, dies at age 78. [1]

April 14

• François de Cuvilliés Belgian architect of Bayern, dies. [1]

April 19

• Filippo della Valle Italian sculptor, dies at about age 70. [1]

April 20

• Giovanni AC Canaletto Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at age 70. [1]

May 16

• Cornelis Writer fleet supervisor, dies at about age 81. [1]

May 27

• Johann M Fleischmann German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies. [1]

June 21

• First US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer). [1]

July 7

• Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel. [1]

December 6

• First edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland). [1]

1769

January 18

• Hakuin Ekaku Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan. [1]

February 2

• Clement XIII [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at age 75. [1]

March 27

• Josef Antonin Gurecky composer, dies at age 60. [1]

April 3

• Gerhard Tersteegen German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at age 71. [1]

April 20

• Pontiac Indian chief to Ottawa, murdered. [1]

April 22

• Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress. [1]

June 7

• Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky. [1]

July 16

• Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in California. [1]

August 29

• Edmond Hoyle games expert, dies (birth date unknown). [1]

September 18

• Boston Gazette reports first US piano (a spinet). [1]

December 12

• Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee. [1]

December 13

• C F Gellert writer, dies at age 54. [1]
• Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter. [1]