Brisson produced a six-volume work Ornithologie in 1760 and Buffon's included nine volumes ( volumes 16-24 ) on birds Histoire naturelle des oiseaux ( 1770 – 1785 ) in his work on science Histoire naturelle générale et particulière ( 1749 – 1804 ).

Tommaso Traetta produced two operas setting translations of Rameau libretti that show the French composer's influence, Ippolito ed Aricia ( 1759 ) and I Tintaridi ( based on Castor et Pollux, 1760 ).

The earliest surviving civil code is the Code of Hammurabi, produced circa 1760 BC by the Babylonian king Hammurabi.

Threepences were produced in 1729, 1731, 1732, 1735, 1737, 1739, 1740, 1743, 1746, and 1760.

Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyon, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets.

Piccinni's first opera, Le donne dispettose, was produced in 1755, and in 1760 he composed, at Rome, the chef d ' œuvre of his early life, La Cecchina, ossia la buona Figliuola, an opera buffa with a libretto by Goldoni, which " enjoyed a two-year run in Rome and was played in all the important European capitals.

Encouraged by Home and others, he produced a number of pieces translated from the Scottish Gaelic, which he reportedly spoke, which he was induced to publish at Edinburgh in 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland.

Two genuine poets are the brothers Rigaud of Montpellier: Augustes ( 1760 – 1835 ) description of a vintage is deservedly famous ; and Cyrille ( 1750-182 ~) produced an equally delightful poem in the Amours de Mounpei.

By 1760, Staunton was one of the major " remote trading centers in the backcountry " which coordinated the transportation of the vast amounts of grain and tobacco then being produced in response to the change of Britain from a net exporter of produce to an importer.

He spent fully eleven years in Rome, a remarkable length of time ; after the young artist's official residence at the French Academy in Rome ran out, he supported himself by works he produced for visiting connoisseurs like the abbé de Saint-Non, who took Robert to Naples in April 1760 to visit the ruins of Pompeii.

He wrote the libretto of an oratorio Zimri in 1760, and the next year Edgar and Emmeline: a Fairy Tale was produced at Drury Lane.

* La Religieuse, Roman ( 1760 ; revised in 1770 and in the early 1780s ; the novel was first published as a volume posthumously in 1796 ).

He became a member of the first class at the College of Philadelphia ( now the University of Pennsylvania ) in 1751 and graduated in 1757, receiving his masters degree in 1760, and a doctor in law ( honorary ) in 1790.

From 1760 onwards the British Society of Artists, the first body to organize regular exhibitions in London, awarded two generous prizes each year to paintings of subjects from British history.

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.

Arne was the first English composer to experiment with Italian-style all-sung comic opera, with his greatest success being Thomas and Sally in 1760.

The first recorded use of sienna as a colour name in English was in 1760.

George III reigned 1760 – 1820 ; he was born in Britain, never visited Hanover, and spoke English as his first language.

* April 29 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier ( b. 1760 )

Maskelyne ’ s first contribution to astronomical literature was A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius, published in 1760.

His parents moved to Rendsburg in 1760 where Adam Struensee became first superintendent ( comparable to bishop ) for the duchy, and subsequently superintendent-general of Schleswig-Holstein.

He is the first of only five monarchs to reign in the Kingdom of England or its successor states for 50 years or more, the others being Edward III ( 1327 – 1377 ), George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Victoria ( 1837 – 1901 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1952 – present ).

Thomas Braidwood, an Edinburgh teacher, founded ' Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb ' in 1760 which is recognised as the first school for the deaf in Britain.

The first road connection between Moscow and Irkutsk, the Siberian Road, was built in 1760, and benefited the town economy.

Around 1760 he turned to Shakespeare, depicting a scene from Macbeth where Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches, noteworthy as being one of the first paintings to portray theatrical characters in a landscape.

This universal law of nature embraces laws of motion as well, for an object moving others by its own force in fact imparts to another object the force it loses " ( first articulated in a letter to Leonhard Euler dated 5 July 1748, rephrased and published in Lomonosov's dissertation " Reflexion on the solidity and fluidity of bodies ", 1760 ).

The first jigsaw puzzle was created around 1760, when John Spilsbury, a British engraver and mapmaker, mounted a map on a sheet of wood that he then sawed around each individual country.

Finally, the County Court held its first session on November 11, 1743, where James Wood served until 1760.

Robert Adam was leader of the first phase of the classical revival in England and Scotland from around 1760 until his death.

Washington was first settled in 1760 and was officially incorporated in 1777.

Hawley was first settled in 1760 as Plantation Number 7, by a group from Hatfield.

Chesterfield was first settled in 1760 and was officially incorporated in 1762.

The town was first granted in 1764 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Franconia, a name widely applied to the region by 1760 due to the terrain's resemblance to the Franconian Switzerland in the region of Franconia in Germany.

The town was first settled around 1760.

The town was first settled around 1760.

Originally laid out by Peter Klein in 1760, the town was first named " Petersburg ".

In 1760, noted Shakespearean editor Edward Capell included the play in his Prolusions ; or, Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry, Compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publicke as Specimens of the Integrity that should be Found in the Editions of worthy Authors, and concluded that it had been written by Shakespeare.

The play was successful at Covent Garden and played regularly until 1760.

The following season found Foote in Dublin where Wilkinson was drawing crowds with his imitations and on 28 January 1760, Foote opened a new play, The Minor.

They became an elite corps, which was to play a role in the Burmese battles against the Siamese ( attacks and capture of Ayutthaya from 1760 to 1765 ) and the Manchus ( battles against the Chinese armies of the Qian Long emperor from 1766 to 1769 ).

Mosè in Egitto (; ) is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a play by Francesco Ringhieri, L ' Osiride, of 1760.