* 1760 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer ( d. 1797 )

* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

* Cyril VI Tanas, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1724 – 1760

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General ( d. 1806 )

* 1760 – Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and music educator ( d. 1826 )

* 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary ( d. 1829 )

* 1835 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier ( b. 1760 )

The Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was founded in 1760 – an institution that became the Edinburgh College of Art in 1907.

* Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760 – 1800.

* 1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer ( d. 1760 )

In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.

# 1750 – 1760 Sir Atwell Lake

# 1760 – 1770 Sir William Baker

* Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760 – 1800.

From circa 1450 – 1760, Zimbabwe gave way to the Kingdom of Mutapa.

In fact, during the reigns of the final three joint rulers ( 1760 – 1837 ), there was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821.

Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.

The founder of Hasidism, Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), became known as the Baal Shem Tov ( the " Master of the Good Name ", abbreviated " Besht ").

Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov ( or Besht ).

* 1760 – Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer ( d. 1837 )

* 1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

* 1829 – István Pauli ( Pável ) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer ( b. 1760 )

* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.

On 8 November 1727 in Vechelde, Christian August married Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp ( 24 October 1712-30 May 1760 ), daughter of Prince Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin and sister of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden.

In 1760 he was appointed publisher to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the firm retained the agency for over seventy years.

Christian Kramp ( July 8, 1760 – May 13, 1826 ) was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials.

A two-volume Life of Erasmus ( 1758, 1760 ) drew upon Jean Le Clerc: " Jortin was in many ways a late representative of Christian humanism, as well as an active citizen in the protestant republic of letters ".

At Lüneburg Johann Christopher Jauch ( 1669 – 1725 ) was Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg Dean of the Lutheran churches ( Königlich Großbritannischer und Kurfürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer Stadtsuperintendent ) at St. John's Church, Lüneburg, while Johann Christian Jauch ( 1702 – 1778 ) became canon, 1754 subsenior collegii canonici, 1760 The Very Reverend ( Erster Domherr ) and vice-dean ( Vizedekan ) of the Lutheran cathedral of Bardowick.

On 5 March 1760 in The Hague, during the regency of her grandmother Princess Marie Luise, Princess Carolina married Karl Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

Inaugurated in 1760, it was originally a burial site for the poor laid out to relieve the crowded graveyards inside the walled city, but during the Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century it became mundane and many leading figures of the epoch, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Christen Købke are all buried on the premises.

* Ludwig ( II ) ( died 1760 ) and his nephew Joachim Christian von Blumenthal were both presidents of Frederick the Great's principal ministry, the War and Domains Directory.

* 1760 – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.

* 1760 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* 1760 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary ( b. 1760 )

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

* 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer ( d. 1760 )

* 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary figure ( d. 1797 )

Although he has been compared to the Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), Francia's policies and ideals perhaps most closely resembled those of François-Noël Babeuf ( 1760 – 1797 ), the French utopian who wanted to abolish private property and communalize land as a prelude to founding a " republic of equals ".

The fiction book Giphantie, published in 1760, by French author Tiphaigne de la Roche, described what can be interpreted as photography.

** François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1760 )

* March 7 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian ( d. 1760 )

** Camille Desmoulins, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1760 )

** François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader ( suicide ) ( b. 1760 )

* July 23 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general ( executed ) ( b. 1760 )

* April 28 – Joseph Souham, French general ( b. 1760 )

* January 11 – Antoine Bournonville, French ballet dancer and choreographer ( b. 1760 )

* May 19 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French politician ( b. 1760 )

* February 28 – Louis Godin, French astronomer ( d. 1760 )

* March 27 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister ( d. 1760 )

The victory was made complete in 1760, when, despite losing outside Quebec City in the Battle of Sainte-Foy, the British were able to prevent the arrival of French relief ships in the naval Battle of the Restigouche while armies marched on Montreal from three sides.