The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

* Eurypyle, queen of the Amazons who was reported to have led an expedition against Ninus and Babylon around 1760 BC

He notes that Vaccinium macrocarpon ( American cranberry ) was cultivated by James Gordon in 1760.

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

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

In 1760, Boudinot was admitted to the bar, and began his practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.

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.

Eric Hobsbawm held that it ' broke out ' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s, while T. S. Ashton held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830.

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

Karl August Böttiger ( June 8, 1760 – November 17, 1835 ) was a German archaeologist and classicist, and a prominent member of the literary and artistic circles in Weimar and Jena.

In 1760 during the Seven Years ' War, Liegnitz was the site of the Battle of Liegnitz when Frederick's army defeated an Austrian army led by Laudon.

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.

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.

One of the most famous circuit riders was Robert Strawbridge who lived in the vicinity of Carroll County, Maryland soon after arriving in the Colonies around 1760.

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.

1760 BC ), for example, stated that death was prescribed for anyone who helped a slave to escape, as well as for anyone who sheltered a fugitive.

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

Some current editions of cards based on the Marseilles design go back to a deck of a particular Marseilles design that was printed by Nicolas Conver in 1760.

The most infamous club associated with the name was established in England by Sir Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.

Between 1760 and 1765 Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea by Charles Johnstone was published.

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

The domestic political situation was altered dramatically when George II died in October 1760.

By 1760, the Maratha groups had coalesced into a big enough army under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau.

In 1759 he was made brigade major to Brigadier General John Stanwix, a position he continued when General Robert Monckton took over Stanwix's command in 1760.

He took command of the forces at Madras, where a French siege had recently been defeated, and on 22 January 1760 led them in the decisive victory of Battle of Wandiwash.

* François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis ( 1719 – 1787 ), French soldier best known for his command in Canada in 1760

From October 1759 to April 1760 he had command of the Royal Exchange, a hired vessel employed in petty convoy service with a miscellaneous ship's company, consisting to a large extent of boys and foreigners, many of whom ( he reported ) could not speak English, and all impressed with the idea that as they had been engaged by the merchants from whom the ship was hired they were not subject to naval discipline.

After Frederick II of Prussia had conquered Silesia in 1742, his fierce opponent Maria Theresa of Austria once again stroke back in the course of the Seven Years ' War: In 1760 Austrian troops under the command of field marshal Laudon invaded the province and on June 23 defeated a Prussian corps under Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué at the Battle of Landeshut.

In the Battle of Torgau on 3 November 1760, King Frederick the Great's Prussian army fought a larger Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun.

After a period back at court, 38-year-old Zakhar held the command of a Russian corps of approximately 20, 000 soldiers who took part in the Raid on Berlin which briefly saw Austro-Russian forces capture the Prussian capital in 1760, during the very bloody and extensive European War ( over 1 million deaths ), known as Seven Years ' War, ( 1756 – 1763 ).

In the end of January 1760 the Royal George came to Spithead, and a month later Lockhart was appointed to command the 64-gun, forming part of the fleet under Hawke or Edward Boscawen.

Holburne did not command any more ships after Newark, and died on 1 April 1760.

In the Battle of Torgau, on November 3, 1760, a Prussian army under the command of King Friedrich the Great defeated a larger Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun, a major battle of the Seven Years ' War.

In 1760, after fierce fighting in the town, it was surrendered to French invaders under the command of Francois Thurot.

During the Seven Year's War the town was the site of the Battle of Korbach on 10 July 1760 between the French under the command of St. Germain and the Hanoverian, British and Hessian allies under Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, the Hereditary Prince.

In 1760, Charles III appointed him ambassador to Poland and on his return he was sent to Portugal to supersede the Marquis of Sarria in the command of the Spanish army then invading Portugal.

During the Seven Years ' War, in February 1760, the whole town was briefly captured and held to ransom by French troops landed from Francois Thurot's naval squadron, after the defenders ran out of ammunition.

In July 1760, with another small squadron, he succeeded in taking many more of the enemy's flat-bottomed boats and in blockading the coast as far as Dieppe.

In 1760 Palliser was sent to the Mediterranean Sea to chase a small French squadron which had slipped out of the port at Toulon.