Explore 274 historical events from 1760–1769.
The siege of Quebec, also known as the second siege of Quebec, was a 1760 French attempt to retake Quebec City, in New France, which had been captured by Britain the previous year.…
French forces besieging Quebec retreat after the Royal Navy arrives to relieve the British garrison
The Expulsion of the Acadians was the eviction of French colonialists of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain. It included …
Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Province of Massachusetts Bay, he fought in King George's War, the French and Indian …
French and Indian War: Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Thérèse on the Richelieu River nea
The Battle of Landeshut was an engagement fought on 23 June 1760 during the Third Silesian War.
Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia
The Anglo-Cherokee War, was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion. The war was a conflict between Bri…
Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolin
Johann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, Lutheran theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems and one of German tales…
Johann Peter Hebel, German author and poet (died 1826)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin…
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer (died 1836)
Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered a "new earth" containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be…
Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (died 1852)
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray was a French novelist, playwright and journalist.
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist, and politician (died 1797)
The Battle of Restigouche was a naval battle fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War on the Restigouche River between the British Royal Navy and the small flotilla of vessels of…
British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
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: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
The Montreal campaign, also known as the fall of Montreal, was a British three-pronged offensive against Montreal which took place from July 2 to 8 September 1760 during the French…
French and Indian War: French surrender Montreal to the British, completing the latter's conquest of New France.
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: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
The Ndyuka people or Aukan people are one of six Maroon peoples in the Republic of Suriname and one of the Maroon peoples in French Guiana. The Aukan or Ndyuka speak the Ndyuka lan…
In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain…
Christian Kramp was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials.
Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (died 1826)
Margaret Shippen was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. She has been described as "the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution".
Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (died 1804)
István Pauli or István Pável was a Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest. Pauli was the teacher of Pertoča György Kousz, who was the author of a hymnal in Pertoča.
István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (died 1829)
Pope Leo XII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 28 September 1823 to his death in February 1829.
Pope Leo XII (died 1829)
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel Graf Tauentzien von Wittenberg was a Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars.
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (died 1824)
Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev was a Russian statesman. He was also a poet associated with the sentimentalist movement in Russian literature.
Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Minister of Justice for Imperial Russia (died 1837)
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire befor…
King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
William Thomas Beckford was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. Beckford was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilt…
William Thomas Beckford, English author and politician (died 1844)
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a sub…
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (died 1825)
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren was a German historian who was professor of philosophy and history at the University of Göttingen. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)