Explore 93 historical events from 1760–1769.
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire.
José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (died 1838)
Johann(es) Simon Mayr, also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr, was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic mus…
Simon Mayr, German composer and educator (died 1845)
Franz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franziska Danzi.
Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (died 1826)
Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet. He is known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply Issa (一茶), a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea. He is regarded as one of t…
Kobayashi Issa, Japanese priest and poet (died 1827)
Manuel Maximiliano Alberti was an Argentine priest from Buenos Aires when the city was part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. He had a curacy at Maldonado, Uruguay during …
Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (died 1811)
Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone, was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure for Irish republicanism. Convinced that if his fel…
Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (died 1798)
Marie-Josephte Corriveau, better known as "la Corriveau", is a well-known figure in Québécois folklore. She lived in New France, and was sentenced to death in 1763 by a British cou…
Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (born 1733)
George Psalmanazar was a Frenchman who claimed to be the first native of Formosa to visit Europe. For some years, he convinced many in Britain, but he was eventually revealed to be…
George Psalmanazar, French-English author (born 1679)
The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762. Standing …
Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with f…
Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St
Prussia was a German state centred on the North European Plain. It originated from the 1525 secularization act of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centurie…
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg
The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763, was a global war fought by numerous great powers, primarily in Europe, with significant subsidiary campaigns in North America and the Indian sub…
Seven Years' War: British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan, was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empi…
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1833)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (died 1814)
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst was a British Tory politician. He was an MP for thirty years before ennoblement. A personal friend of William Pitt the Younger, he became a broker…
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (died 1834)
Edmund Ignatius Rice, F.P.M., C.F.C. was a Catholic missionary and educationalist who founded two institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the P…
Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish priest and missionary, founded the Irish Christian Brothers (died 1844)
Aleksander Józef Sułkowski was a Polish general and the progenitor of the Sułkowski noble line. He was politically active in Poland, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the E…
Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (born 1695)
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was a German philosopher. He established aesthetics as a philosophical discipline.
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher and academic (born 1714)
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben was a German medical doctor who became the first female doctor of medicine in Germany.
Dorothea Erxleben, first German female doctor (born 1715)
Anne Russell, Duchess of Bedford was the wife of Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford, and, following his death, of William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey. She was the mother of …
Anne Russell, Countess of Jersey (formerly Duchess of Bedford) (born c
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian.
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet and playwright (born 1674)
Johann Ernst Eberlin was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a composer of church organ and choral music. Marpurg claims he wro…
Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (born 1702)
The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762. Standing …
The Trevi Fountain (pictured) in Rome was officially inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII
The Exhibition of 1761 was the inaugural art exhibition staged by the Society of Artists of Great Britain (SAGB), a group of painters, architects and sculptors. The exhibition open…
Exhibition of 1761, the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain opens at Spring Gardens in Londo