1760

	1760 in topic:
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	Countries: Canada – Great Britain –
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s 1740s 1750s – 1760s – 1770s 1780s 1790s
Years:	1757 1758 1759 – 1760 – 1761 1762 1763

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).

[edit] Events of 1760

June 4: Evangeline and Great Upheaval.

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 8 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche: 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 30 – 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 – George II of Great Britain dies; his grandson George III ascends to the throne.
November 3 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Torgau: In another extremely hard battle Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.

Abu Dhabi is founded (Approximate date).
Tacky's rebellion occurs in Jamaica.
Dr. James Fordyce's two-volume compendium, Sermons for Young Women, is published.
The dockyards of Portsmouth catch fire.
Western countries pay 3,000,000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods.

January 3 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
March 1 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (d. 1794)
March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (d. 1828)
March 28 – Thomas Clarkson, British Abolitionist (d. 1846)
April 30 – Joseph Souham, French general (d. 1837)
May 10 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
May 28 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (d. 1794)
May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina
June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1797)
August 22 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
October 27 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
October – Fredrique Löwen, stage actress (d. 1813)
December 17 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (d. 1827)
date unknown – Louise Françoise Contat, French actress (d. 1813)
probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)

April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
May 5 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
May 9 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
May 15 – Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
May 22 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
June 13 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
July 13 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (b. 1696)
September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
October 15 – Nicolas d'Assas, a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne (b. 1733)
October 25 – King George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)

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