Explore 274 historical events from 1760–1769.
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature.
Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (born 1703)
Antoine Deparcieux was a French mathematician. He was born at Clessous in the Portes, province of Languedoc. He attended the school of Saint Florent for 10 years while working on h…
Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and theorist (born 1703)
Robert Simson was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The Simson line is named after him.
Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (born 1687)
Michel Blavet was a French composer and flute virtuoso. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute which he held to…
Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (born 1700)
Captain Samuel Wallis was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who made the first recorded visit by a European navigator to Tahiti.
Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island
Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which many of the 40 inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty.
Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
Nicolas Charles Oudinot, duc de Reggio, was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is known to have been wounded 34 times in battle, being hi…
Nicolas Oudinot, French general (died 1847)
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia was a Prussian princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was the eldest daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and…
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (died 1820)
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country comprising the western and northernmost parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, the remote Arctic isla…
Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
The Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits, is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church. Headquartered in Ro…
Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
Sadguru Sri Tyāgarāja Swāmi, also known as Tyāgayya, and in full as Kākarla Tyāgabraḥmaṁ, was a composer of Carnatic Music, a form of Indian Classical Music. Tyāgarāja and his cont…
Tyagaraja, Indian composer (died 1847)
Rachel Jackson was the wife of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. She lived with him at their home at the Hermitage, where she died just days after his ele…
Rachel Jackson, American wife of Andrew Jackson (died 1828)
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In…
Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (died 1835)
Alexis Bouvard was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of a…
Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and academic (died 1843)
Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Ríos, 1st Prince of the Peace was First Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and from 1801 to 1808. He was one of the cen…
Manuel Godoy, Spanish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1851)
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagorian…
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (died 1846)
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; mi…
John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (died 1848)
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)
Henry Joy McCracken was an Irish republican executed in Belfast for his part in leading United Irishmen in the Rebellion of 1798. Convinced that the cause of representative governm…
Henry Joy McCracken, Irish businessman and activist, founded the Society of United Irishmen (died 1798)
August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena …
August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic (died 1845)
Wenzel Müller was an Austrian composer and conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas.
Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1835)
Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti.
Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (died 1820)
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.
Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (died 1830)
Marie Sophie Frederikke of Hesse-Kassel was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to Frederick VI. She served as regent of Denmark during the absence of her spouse in 1814–1815.
Marie of Hesse-Kassel (died 1852)