1760 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1760?
- January 9, 1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- January 28, 1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
- March 20, 1760 – The “Great Fire” of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
- June 4, 1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
- June 23, 1760 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
- July 8, 1760 – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
- August 15, 1760 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great’s victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
- October 9, 1760 – Seven Years’ War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
- October 25, 1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
Who Were Born In The Year 1760?
- January 3, 1760 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
- March 2, 1760 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (d. 1794)
- March 28, 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
- May 10, 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
- June 5, 1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
- July 8, 1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
- August 22, 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
- September 3, 1760 – James ‘Pearlie’Wilson, Scottish revolutionary (d. 1820)
- September 14, 1760 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
- September 15, 1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
- September 21, 1760 – Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
- October 1, 1760 – William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
- October 17, 1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
- October 27, 1760 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- November 13, 1760 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (d. 1820)
- November 21, 1760 – Joseph Plumb Martin, Soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1850)
- November 23, 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary figure (d. 1797)
- December 2, 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General (d. 1806)
- December 30, 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1829)
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