His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

Title page of the Prayer book of 1662, printed by John Baskerville in 1762.

In 1762, Havana was briefly occupied by Great Britain, before being returned to Spain in exchange for Florida.

The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres.

For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

The Encyclopédie was edited by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Denis Diderot and published in 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765, and 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772.

The effect of the time of repose was explained by Musschenbroek ( 1762 ) by considering the surfaces of fibrous materials, with fibers meshing together, which takes a finite time in which the friction increases.

Grenada was captured by the British during the Seven Years ' War on 4 March 1762 by Commodore Swanton without a shot being fired.

In 1762 Russia, France and Austria were on the verge of crushing Prussia, when the Anglo-Prussian Alliance was saved by the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.

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

In 1762, Sabah I died and was succeeded by his youngest son, Abdullah.

Their emigration left the Sabahs in undisputed control, and by the end of Abdullah I's long rule ( 1762 – 1812 ), Sabah rule was secure, and the political hierarchy in Kuwait was well established, the merchants deferring to direct orders from the Shaikh.

It was proposed that the force on magnetic poles, by Johann Tobias Mayer and others in 1760, and electrically charged objects, by Henry Cavendish in 1762, obeyed an inverse-square law.

* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

In 1762, the Kingdom of Great Britain invaded Cuba in the Battle of Havana, and peasant guerrillas led by Pepe Antonio, a Guanabacoa councilman, used machetes in the defense of the city.

On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention ; he withdrew to Mazarin college, where he worked actively for some years, and there died of an attack of gout aggravated by over-work in 1762.

Prometheus depicted in a sculpture by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, 1762 ( Louvre )

To the arrêt of 2 August 1762, by which the Parlement suppressed the Jesuits in France, imposing untenable conditions on any wishing to remain in the country, Clement XIII replied by a protest against the invasion of the Church's rights, and annulled the arrêts.

In the South East corner of Kew Gardens stands the Great Pagoda ( by Sir William Chambers ), erected in 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta.

Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, by Francis Hayman ( c. 1762 ).

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.

In 1762 one of the main features of the cathedral, the Madonnina's spire, was erected at the dizzying height of 108. 5 m. The spire was designed by Francesco Croce and sports at the top a famous polychrome Madonnina statue, designed by Giuseppe Perego that befits the original stature of the cathedral.

* December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini, composer ( b. 1762 )

The Trevi Fountain was finished in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini, who substituted the present allegories for planned sculptures of Agrippa and " Trivia ", the Roman virgin.

* Vincenzo Giuseppe Filippo Graziliano Giacopo Gasparo Baldassaro Melchior Domenico Giustiniani, 6th Prince Giustiniani and de jure 6th Earl of Newburgh ( 1762 – 1826 )

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

* Antonino Faà de ’ marchesi di Bruno, conte di Carentino ( 1762 – 10 November, 1829 ), Bishop of Asti .< ref > Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le chiese d ’ Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, 21 vols ( Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli, 1844 – 70 ) ( 1858 ), 128 .</ ref >< ref > Carlo A-Valle, Storia di Alessandria dall ' origine ai nostri giorni, 4 vols ( Turin: Falletti 1853 – 1855 ) ( 1855 ), 318 .</ ref >

Having been a student of Giuseppe Tartini, he moved to Germany where he joined the court chapel in Stuttgart where he became conductor in 1762.

* August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes ( born 1762 )

* Didone abbandonata ( 18 January 1823, Teatro Regio, Turin )

* R 1. 88 Didone abbandonata ( 4. 11. 1794 Naples, Teatro di S Carlo )

* 1724: Didone abbandonata by Domenico Sarro

* 1740: Didone abbandonata by Baldassare Galuppi

* 1747: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli

* 1770: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Piccinni

* 1823: Didone abbandonata by Saverio Mercadante

Under her influence he wrote in rapid succession Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.

* Didone abbandonata ( 1724 )

* Didone abbandonata ( 1726 )

The marriage of princess Maria Josepha of Saxony to the French Dauphin gave Hasse the opportunity to journey to Paris in the summer of 1750, where his Didone abbandonata was performed.

He must have left Venice at the very end of 1746 or at the beginning of the following year, because on 28 January 1747 Jommelli was staging at the Argentina theatre in Rome his first version of the " Didone abbandonata ", and in May at San Carlo theatre in Naples a second version of " Eumene ".

* Didone abbandonata ( Rome, 1847 ) – libretto by Metastasio

* Didone abbandonata ( Stuttgart, 1763 )

Among the opera recordings on CD or DVD are Il caffè di campagna ( 2011 ), La clemenza di Tito ( 2010 ), La diavolessa ( 2004 ), Didone abbandonata ( 2007 ), Il filosofo di campagna ( 1959 and 2001 ), Gusto primo, re di Svezia ( 2005 ), Il mondo alla roversa ( 2007 ), and L ' Olimpiade ( 2009 ).

Under her wing, Metastasio produced libretto after libretto, and they were rapidly set by the greatest composers in Italy and Austria, establishing the transnational tone of opera seria: Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.

Vinci's settings of Didone abbandonata and Artaserse were much praised for their stromento recitative, and he played a crucial part in establishing the new style of melody.

1792 saw Storace produce the boldest of his operatic projects, Dido, Queen of Carthage, with a libretto by Prince Hoare after Metastasio's Didone abbandonata.

Indeed, it ranks with Demofoonte and Didone abbandonata, dramas excelled in popularity only by Artaserse and Alessandro nell ' Indie.