Explore 179 historical events from 1760–1769.
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Conven…
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (died 1794)
The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the Çınarcık Basin which occurred in the early hours of Thursday m…
A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region
François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre was a French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to …
François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along…
Collin McKinney was an American surveyor, merchant, politician, and lay preacher. He is best known as a figure in the Texas Revolution, as one of the five individuals who drafted t…
Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, and politician (died 1861)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian a…
Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher (died 1817)
Alexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as t…
Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (died 1813)
Guillaume Philibert, 1st Count Duhesme was a French Army officer, politician and writer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was a commander of the Imperi…
Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (died 1815)
Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey was a French surgeon and soldier best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. An important innovator in battlefield medi…
Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)
Aaron Chorin was a Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of early religious reform. He favored the use of the organ and of prayers in the vernacular, and was instrumental in founding schools…
Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author (died 1844)
William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum o…
William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (died 1828)
Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. H…
Jacob Perkins, American inventor (died 1849)
Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously…
Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684)
Samuel Chandler was an English Nonconformist minister and pamphleteer. He has been called the "uncrowned patriarch of Dissent" in the latter part of the reign of George II of Great…
Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (born 1693)
Don Carlo Zimech was a Maltese priest and painter. He was born within a well-off family in Żebbuġ on mainland Malta. In his later life, he retired to Nadur, Gozo, possibly because …
Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles was a French Royal Army officer.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1678)
Jonathan Mayhew was a noted American Congregational minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (born 1720)
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was a British heiress, the wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husban…
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (born 1726)
The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the Çınarcık Basin which occurred in the early hours of Thursday m…
A magnitude-7
Sylvestre François Lacroix was a French mathematician.
Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (died 1834)
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 248 years of service as of 2026, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. She was order…
HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent
The Treaty of Allahabad was signed on 16 August 1765, between the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II, son of the late Emperor Alamgir II, and Robert Clive, of the East India Company, in t…
Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of…
Johanna Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Christiane Vulpius, mistress and wife of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (died 1816)
Henry Thomas Colebrooke FRS FRSE FLS was an English orientalist and botanist. He has been described as "the first great Sanskrit scholar in Europe".
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (died 1837)
Petros Mavromichalis, also known as Petrobey, was a Greek general and politician who played a major role in the lead-up and during the Greek War of Independence. Before the war, he…
Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1848)