Explore 208 historical events from 1760–1769.
Joseph Anton Koch was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (died 1839)
Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duc d'Istrie was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napoleon…
Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (died 1813)
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a reactionary figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Ma…
Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat (died 1793)
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix was a French general and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars. According to the usage of the time, he took the surname Desaix de Veygou…
Louis Desaix, French general (died 1800)
Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and anatomist, who made contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and …
Astley Cooper, British surgeon and anatomist (died 1841)
Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essa…
Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (died 1812)
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocr…
François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (died 1848)
Benjamin Carr was an American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher.
Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (died 1831)
Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (born 1697)
Georg Brandt was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt c. 1735. He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. He is also known for exposi…
Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1694)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman ar…
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (born 1717)
James Short FRS was a Scottish mathematician and manufacturer of optical instruments, principally telescopes. During his 35-year career as a telescope-maker he produced approximate…
James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (born 1710)
Benjamin Tasker Sr. was the 21st Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753. He also occupied a number of other significant colonial offices, including, on various occasion…
Benjamin Tasker Sr
Johann Conrad Beissel was a German-born religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in the Province of Pennsylvania.
Conrad Beissel, German-American religious leader (born 1690)
Nathaniel Lardner was an English Presbyterian minister and theologian.
Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian and author (born 1684)
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)
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.
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.
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)
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)