* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1762 – George IV of the United Kingdom ( d. 1830 )

* 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan ( d. 1762 )

* 1742 – 1762 James Bradley

* 1762 – 1764 Nathaniel Bliss

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

* Russian Empire: 1762 – 1796

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* Marquard Herrgott ( 1694 – 1762 )

* 1687 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1762 )

After getting established, on April 21, 1762, Boudinot married Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ), Richard's younger sister.

* 1703 – Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer ( d. 1762 )

* 1728 – Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great ( d. 1762 )

* 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy ( d. 1762 )

There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814 ) was a German philosopher.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

* Gia Long ( 1762 – 1820 ), Vietnamese Emperor

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

* 1674 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer ( d. 1762 )

* 1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.

* 1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher ( d. 1762 )

Spain's alliance with the French pitched them into direct conflict with the British, and in 1762 a British expedition of five warships and 4, 000 troops set out from Portsmouth to capture Cuba.

Even though the French and Indian War continued over the next several years, Allen did not apparently participate in any further military activities, and is presumed to have tended his farm, at least until 1762.

Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana for French ownership from Spain in 1800 under the Treaty of San Ildefonso, after being a Spanish colony since 1762.

* 1762 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist ( d. 1833 )

Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille ( 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762 ) was a French astronomer.

* 1762 – André Chénier, French writer ( d. 1794 )

A secret convention pledged that if Britain and France were still at war by 1 May 1762, Spain would enter the war on the French side.

* November 23 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal ( b. 1762 )

* July 25 – André Chénier, French writer ( executed ) ( b. 1762 )

* January 9 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general ( b. 1762 )

* March 15 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer ( d. 1762 )

* August 8 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* January 15 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer ( d. 1762 )

The descent of the French on St. John's, Newfoundland, 1762.

Many troops from North America were reassigned to participate in further British actions in the West Indies, including the capture of Spanish Havana when Spain belatedly entered the conflict on the side of France, and a British expedition against French Martinique in 1762.

They were preparing to face 27, 000 Danish troops under the French general Count St. Germain in case the Russian-Denmark freedom conference, scheduled for 1 July 1762 in Berlin under the patronage of Frederick II, failed to resolve the issue.

He participated in a 1762 attempt by the French to gain control of Newfoundland, escaping with the fleet when the British arrived in force to drive them out.

Around 1787, the Spanish government, who had acquired the territory from France in 1762, brought in a band of Shawnee and Delaware Native Americans, who had been friendly to the French, to help protect the settlers from the Osage.

Napoleon Bonaparte returned Louisiana to French control from Spain in 1800, under the Treaty of San Ildefonso ( Louisiana had been a Spanish colony since 1762.

There was an influx of the French from New Orleans to the bayou country after the Spanish domination in 1762.

Carriacou was part of the French colony in 1762.

Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.