*‘ The Scripture Account of Prayer ,’ 1761 ; the 2nd edit.

He made a valuable contribution to history in his Account of the War in India on the Coast of Coromandel from the year 1750 to 1760 ( 1761 ).

Subsequent contributions to the Transactions contained his observations of the transits of Venus ( 1761 and 1769 ), on the tides at Saint Helena ( 1762 ), and on various astronomical phenomena at Saint Helena ( 1764 ) and at Barbados ( 1764 ).

: Argus Bohadsch, 1761 ( Gastropoda ) ( was made available for homonymy by ICZN in Opinion 429, Bohadsch 1761 was non-binominal-this had the effect that no other one of the various following names Argus can be used for a taxon )

The two men became close friends, and when Josias died in 1761, two years after the completion of the lighthouse, William Jessop was taken on as a pupil by Smeaton ( who also acted as Jessop ’ s guardian ), working on various canal schemes in Yorkshire.

Many headmasters came and went in the intervening period, including one James Cawthorne ( head from 1743 to 1761 ), a severe disciplinarian, so severe that his ghost is said to have remorselessly haunted the dormitories of the school's various houses for over a century after his death.

In 1761, the monk Hilarion published Relacja o cudownym Obrazie Naijświętszej Marji Panny etc, the primary source for the painting's early history and also the first collection of various miracles attributed to it.

The other half, in spite of various attempts and general demand, did not appear until about seventy years later ( Berlin, 1761 ).

One outstanding piece was a jewel cabinet of mahogany, inlaid with ivory and various woods and exquisitely carved, made for Queen Charlotte in 1761.

Educated at Roßleben, Thuringia and the University of Leipzig, where he studied law, from 1761 until 1783 he held various offices in the ducal court of Saxe-Coburg, where he became privy councillor and minister of state.

In 1761, together with his brother Alessandro, he founded a literary association, the Società dei Pugni (" Society of the Fists "), and, from 1764, published the magazine Il Caffè (" The Coffeehouse "), where some 40 articles by him on various subjects appeared and which became an important reference on Enlightenment Milan.

An elegy ‘ Aurelius ’ for Herring was printed in 1761 with the ‘ Original Poems and Translations ’ of Fawkes ; and reprinted in 1763 in the volume of ‘ Seven Sermons by Archbishop Herring ’.

* ‘ Original Poems and Translations ,’ 1761.

* ‘ The Complete Family Bible, with Notes Theological, Moral, Critical ,’ & c. 1761.

Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus ( 1 September 1761 – 10 August 1851 ) was a German theologian and critic of the Bible.

Pitt's plan for an expedition to capture Belle Île was put into force in April 1761 and it was captured after a siege.

Durrani Empire ( at its peak in 1761 ), the last Afghan empire that united all the Afghan tribes into one concentrated and unified nation.

In 1761 the Duchy fell back into the hands of the Danish crown.

Colrain was first settled in 1735 as " Boston Township No. 2 ", organized into an independently governing town body in 1745, and was officially incorporated on June 30, 1761.

The first major recorded Euro-American presence in the Knoxville area was the Henry Timberlake expedition, which passed through the confluence of the Holston and French Broad into the Tennessee River in December 1761.

Glastenbury was first chartered in 1761 by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth, but settlers did not begin trickling into this rocky, forbidding mountainous area for some years after.

Transylvania was incorporated into the frontier in 1761 and the frontier regiments became the backbone of the military order, with the regimental commander exercising military and civilian power.

On the death of his elder brother, Charles, in 1761, it was decided that he should succeed to his father's grand duchy of Tuscany, which was erected into a " secundogeniture " or apanage for a second son.

His entry into parliament for the seat of Wycombe in 1761 under the auspices of Lord Shelburne, who had selected him " as a bravo to run down Mr. Pitt ," was characterized by a vigorous attack on William Pitt the Elder, of whom, however, he ultimately became a devoted adherent.

Shelburne introduced him to Lord Bute and brought him into parliament for his borough of Chipping Wycombe ( 1761 – 1774 ), and then for Calne ( 1774 – 1790 ).

Another Swedish campaign into Prussia started in the summer of 1761, but was soon aborted due to shortage of supplies and equipment.

First that it was printed in Birmingham by John Baskerville in 1761 ; second that it appealed to children by having the animals speak in character, the Lion in regal style, the Owl with ' pomp of phrase '; thirdly because it gathers into three sections fables from ancient sources, those that are more recent ( including some borrowed from Jean de la Fontaine ), and new stories of his own invention.

The entry of Spain into the war under the terms of the Family Compact of 1761 was of little help to France, where the war had never been popular.

Boulton acquired the lease of the five-year-old Soho Mill in 1761 and developed it into Soho Manufactory.

The Market Bell remains as a reminder of this period ( inset into a wall opposite the Allerdale Hotel ), while the 1761 and Castle pub ( which spans three floors ) have been renovated to reveal medieval stonework and 16th and 18th century features.

In 1761, he married Sarah Hawkins, and gradually settled into a life of farming.

The board carried on this work but also had long periods of inactivity, devolving into chaos after 1761 and abolished in 1782 by an act of Parliament by the Rockingham Whigs.

He was MP for Lanark Burghs from 1761 to 1768 and in 1762, he initiated land tenure reform which would later evolve into the Highland Clearances.

It was not until 1761, when he was in his eightieth year, that he brought out the great work which, once for all, made pathological anatomy a science, and diverted the course of medicine into new channels of exactness or precision — the De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis, which during the succeeding ten years, notwithstanding its bulk, was reprinted several times ( thrice in four years ) in its original Latin, and was translated into French ( 1765 ), English ( 1769 ), and German ( 1771 ).

The letters, in book form, set a precedent for sentimentalism in European culture at large, and for the literary genres of the sentimental novel and the epistolary novel, into the 18th century, such as the " Lettres persanes " by Montesquieu ( 1721 ), " Lettres péruviennes " by Françoise de Graffigny ( 1747 ) and " Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse )" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1761 ).

In 1761, the Bishop of Făgăraş and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, Petru Pavel Aron ( 1709 – 1764 ) translated the Biblia Vulgata into Romanian.

Then in 1761, he went into business with some distant cousins, Joseph and Josiah Gilman.

1761 saw the fort fall into the hands of a man impersonating Sadashivrao Bhau.

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral ( d. 1761 )

* 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( b. 1689 )

During the five hour hearing on February 23, 1761, Otis vehemently denounced English colonial policies, including their sanction of general warrants and writs of assistance.

** Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor ( b. 1761 )

* September 17 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor ( d. 1761 )

* August 19 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

Shrapnel is named after Major-General Henry Shrapnel ( 1761 – 1842 ), an English artillery officer, whose experiments, initially conducted in his own time and at his own expense, culminated in the design and development of a new type of artillery shell.

* June 10 – John Dollond, English optician ( d. 1761 )

* July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer ( d. 1761 )

* William Law, English cleric ( d. 1761 )

* New Guide to the English Tongue, 1761 12mo.

Samuel Richardson ( 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761 ) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

English settlers arrived in 1725-6, and the town was officially incorporated by Massachusetts in 1761.

But ongoing hostilities between the English, French, and their respective Native American allies prevented settlement until 1761, after which it remained for many years a part of Meredith and Gilford called Meredith Bridge.

The brothers Samuel and John Pringle were English soldiers serving in the French and Indian War ( Seven Years ' War ) who in 1761 deserted their post at Fort Pitt ( present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ).

Down to the time of the Coronation of George III, which took place on 22 September 1761, corporal was only another word for Exon, as may be seen on referring to the official programme of the Coronation, wherein mention is made of “ the Corporals or Exons of the Yeomen of the Guard .” The exempt in the French Garde du corps always had charge of the Night Watch, and the Exon is the English Body Guard was especially appointed for that service.

Thomas Bayes (; c. 1701 7 April 1761 ) was an English mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes ' theorem.

* John Williams ( satirist ) ( 1761 – 1818 ), English poet, satirist, and journalist

There is some speculation it was named after Yarmouth, Massachusetts, as some of the earliest English settlers arrived from Cape Cod on 9 June 1761.

To say nothing of minor opponents, such as " Philaretus " ( Gilbert Burnet, already alluded to ), Dr John Balguy ( 1686 – 1748 ), prebendary of Salisbury, the author of two tracts on " The Foundation of Moral Goodness ", and Dr John Taylor ( 1694 – 1761 ) of Norwich, a minister of considerable reputation in his time ( author of An Examination of the Scheme of Amorality advanced by Dr Hutcheson ), the essays appear to have suggested, by antagonism, at least two works that hold a permanent place in the literature of English ethics — Butler's Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue, and Richard Price's Treatise of Moral Good and Evil ( 1757 ).

John Taylor ( 1694 – 1761 ) was an English dissenting preacher, Hebrew scholar, and theologian.

John Opie ( 16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807 ) was an English historical and portrait painter.

* August 19-Samuel Richardson, English novelist ( died 1761 )