Explore 274 historical events from 1760–1769.
Gabriel Richard was a French Catholic priest and a professed member of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice. He ministered to the French Catholics in the parish of Sainte-An…
Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)
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)
Charles Townshend was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of th…
Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1725)
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
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)
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…
The Nottingham cheese riot, also known as the Great Cheese Riot, started on 2 October 1766 at the city's annual Goose Fair. Coming at a time of food shortages and rising foodstuff …
The Nottingham Cheese Riot breaks out at the Goose Fair in Nottingham, UK, in response to the excessive cost of cheese.
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)
Aaron Chorin was a Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of early religious reform. He favored the use of the organ and of prayers in the vernacular, and was instrumental in founding schools…
Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author (died 1844)
William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum o…
William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (died 1828)
Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac, was a French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration. He was known by the courtesy tit…
Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France…
Charlotte, Princess Royal, was Queen of Württemberg as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the eldest daughter and fourth child of George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, …
Charlotte, Princess Royal of England (died 1828)
Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy was a French military leader who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was the last Marshal of the Empire …
Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (died 1847)
John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry. Building on earlier ideas abo…
John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (died 1844)
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)
Samuel Chandler was an English Nonconformist minister and pamphleteer. He has been called the "uncrowned patriarch of Dissent" in the latter part of the reign of George II of Great…
Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (born 1693)
Don Carlo Zimech was a Maltese priest and painter. He was born within a well-off family in Żebbuġ on mainland Malta. In his later life, he retired to Nadur, Gozo, possibly because …
Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles was a French Royal Army officer.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1678)
Jonathan Mayhew was a noted American Congregational minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (born 1720)
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was a British heiress, the wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husban…
Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (born 1726)