Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years: 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 - 1765 - 1766 1767 1768 1769 1770
Events
- March 22 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
- March 24 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain passes the Quartering Act[?] that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops
- May 18 - Fire destroys one quarter of town of Montreal, Quebec.
- June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.
Births
- January 11 - Antoine Alexandre Barbier - French librarian
- March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader - A German philosopher and theologian.
- April 1 - Luigi Schiavonetti - Italian engraver
- April 6 - Duke Charles Felix of Savoy
- June 15 - Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist
- August 21 - King William IV of the United Kingdom.
- September 18 - Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, the later Pope Gregory XVI
- October 8 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer
- October 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist
- November 14 - Robert Fulton - inventor, perfected the steamboat.
- December 8 - Eli Whitney, American inventor
- Charles Hatchett, English chemist who discovered niobium.
- James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
- Peter Bagration - Russian general
- Nicéphore Nièpce - French inventor
Deaths
- March 3 - William Stukeley, English antiquary
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist
- May 17 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician
- August 18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
- October 31 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
- December 25 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist
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