Explore 274 historical events from 1760–1769.
Étienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer of the late classical and early romantic periods. He was known as "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution". H…
Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (died 1817)
Joséphine Bonaparte was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's …
Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I (died 1814)
John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into t…
John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1848)
Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, GCB was a Royal Navy officer whose service in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars…
Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (died 1845)
Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth,…
Samuel Rogers, English poet and art collector (died 1855)
Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel was a German novelist and translator.
Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (died 1839)
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)
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, PC, of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, Petworth House in Sussex, and of Egremont House in Mayfair, London, was a British statesman who served as…
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1710)
Heinrich, Count von Brühl, was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family. The incu…
Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (born 1700)
The Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their children Maria Anna (Nannerl) and Wolfgang Theophilu…
The Mozart family grand tour began, presenting child prodigies Maria Anna and Wolfgang in Western Europe.
The Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their children Maria Anna (Nannerl) and Wolfgang Theophilu…
The Mozart family grand tour began, presenting the child prodigies Maria Anna and Wolfgang Amadeus across Western…
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the Un…
King George III issued a royal proclamation that forbade British settlement of much of newly acquired French territory…
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
Peter III Fyodorovich was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when his wife, Catherine II, overthrew him in a palace coup d'état. He implemented ma…
Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
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
The Battle of Wilhelmsthal was fought on 24 June 1762 during the Seven Years' War between the allied forces of Britain, Prussia, Hanover, Brunswick and Hesse under the command of t…
Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia
Catherine II, commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a coup d'etat against her husband, Peter III. Her long rei…
Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
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)