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Year 1760 (MDCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 9 – Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.

• January 22 – Seven Years' War – At the Battle of Wandiwash in India, British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the French under the Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau.
• January 28 – Benning Wentworth creates the New Hampshire Grant of Pownal, Vermont.
• February 15 – The British Royal Navy ship HMS Royal Katherine runs aground off Bolt Head in England with the loss of 699 lives.
• February 21–26 – Seven Years' War – At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on February 28.
• February 27 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War & Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee natives attack a North Carolina militia stationed at Fort Dobbs in the western part of the province. The attack is repelled by the militia under the command of General Hugh Waddell.
• March 20 – The Great Fire of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
• May–July – 'Tacky's War', a slave rebellion, occurs in Jamaica.
• June 4 – Expulsion of the Acadians: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia taken from the Acadians.

July–December

• July 3 – A lightning strike causes a major fire at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in England.
• July 8 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche: British defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
• July 19 – A formal request is made to the Spanish government as to allow the founding of the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• July 31 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Warburg: The Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick storms Warburg, with a heroic role being played by the English commander Lord Granby.

• August 21 – The church (later cathedral) of Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
• August 30 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Legnica: By a series of brilliant maneuvers, Frederick the Great manages to defeat the Austrian army of Marshal Laudon before it can unite with that of Marshal Daun.
• September 8 – Seven Years' War: Jeffery Amherst captures Montreal.
• September 18 – The town (later city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, is founded.
• October 5 The wedding of Princess Isabella of Parma and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Hofburg Palace's Redoute Hall - (Redoutensaele) at the former imperial palace in Vienna.
• October 9 – Seven Years' War: Russian troops enter Berlin.
• October 16 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Kloster-Kamp: Ferdinand of Brunswick is beaten back from the Rhine by a French army.
• October 25 – George II of Great Britain dies; his grandson George III ascends to the throne. He reigns until January 1820.
• November 3 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Torgau: In another extremely hard battle, Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.

Date unknown

• Dr. James Fordyce's two-volume compendium, Sermons for Young Women, is published.
• Western countries pay 3,000,000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods.
• approximate date – Abu Dhabi is founded.

Births

• February 3 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
• March 1 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide 1794)
• March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (d. 1828)
• March 28 – Thomas Clarkson, English Abolitionist (d. 1846)
• April 30 – Joseph Souham, French general (d. 1837)
• May 10 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
• May 28 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (d. 1794)
• May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (d. 1800)
• June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1797)
• June 16 – Louise Contat, French actress (d. 1813)
• July 13 – István Pauli (Pável), Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (d. 1829)
• August 3 – Jacques Réattu, French artist 9d. (1833)
• August 22 – Pope Leo XII, born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, Italian priest (d. 1829)
• September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
• September 30 – Michele Cachia, Maltese architect and military engineer (d. 1839)
• October 7 (bapt.) – Fredrica Löf, Swedish actress (d. 1813)
• October 27 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
• October 31? – Hokusai, born Katsushika Tokitarō, Japanese Edo period artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (died 1849)
• November 21 – Joseph Plumb Martin, American Revolutionary soldier and narrative author (d. 1860)
• December 17 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (d. 1827)
• date unknown – Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, Scottish judge (d. 1842)
• probable date – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)

Deaths

• April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
• May 5 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
• May 9 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
• May 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (b. 1683)
• May 15 – Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
• May 22 – Israel ben Eliezer aka Baal Shem Tov, Polish-born mystical rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism (b. 1698)
• June 13 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
• July 13 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (b. 1696)
• September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
• October 15 – Nicolas d'Assas, a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne (b. 1733)
• October 25 – King George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 320. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Rodger, N. A. M. (2006). The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815. London: Penguin Books; National Maritime Museum. p. 283. ISBN 0-14-102690-1.
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6. "wedding-supper". www.google.com. Retrieved 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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