Explore 148 historical events from 1760–1769.
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann …
Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (born 1681)
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)
The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the Çınarcık Basin which occurred in the early hours of Thursday m…
A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region
François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre was a French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to …
François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along…
Collin McKinney was an American surveyor, merchant, politician, and lay preacher. He is best known as a figure in the Texas Revolution, as one of the five individuals who drafted t…
Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, and politician (died 1861)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian a…
Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher (died 1817)
Alexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as t…
Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (died 1813)
Guillaume Philibert, 1st Count Duhesme was a French Army officer, politician and writer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was a commander of the Imperi…
Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (died 1815)
Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey was a French surgeon and soldier best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. An important innovator in battlefield medi…
Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)
Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. H…
Jacob Perkins, American inventor (died 1849)
Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously…
Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684)