1760 Calendar
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1760 Historical Event(s)
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 On 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)
July 8, 1760
– Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
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)