Explore 208 historical events from 1760–1769.
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.
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)
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers was an English nobleman, notable for being the last peer to be hanged, following his conviction for murdering his steward.
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (born 1720)
Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christ…
Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop and saint (born 1700)
Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov or BeShT (בעש״ט), was a Jewish mystic and healer regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism. A baal shem tov is a "Master of the Good…
Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (born 1700)
Louis Godin was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He worked in Peru, Spain, Portugal and France.
Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (born 1704)
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: France began an unsuccessful attempt to retake Quebec City, which had been captured by Britain