George II ( 1727 – 1760 ) enhanced the stability of the constitutional system, with a government run by Sir Robert Walpole during the period 1730-42.

This length of middle-distance race, 1760 yards, ( 1609. 344 metres ), is very common in countries that don't use the metric system, and is still often referred to as the " Blue Riband " of the track.

The British captured Montreal in 1760, and shortly thereafter established a military postal system that handled letters between Quebec and Montreal, and from Montreal to Albany, New York.

Becoming a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1763, he soon acquired a leading position in the Scottish legal system ; and he had the advantage of the success of his half-brother Robert ( 1713 – 1787 ), who had become Lord President of the Court of Session in 1760.

Solander traveled to England in June 1760 to promote the new Linnean system of classification.

Tvrđa had street lights by 1717 and was the site of the first public water supply in Croatia, opened in 1751 with sewage system built shortly after in 1760.

After 1760 the Whigs lost power, apart from sharing it in a few short-lived coalitions, but Whiggism fashioned itself into a generalized belief system that emphasized innovation and liberty and was strongly held by about half of the leading families in England and Scotland, as well as most merchants, Dissenters and professionals.

He, along with his brother Joshua Hett Smith, escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused his own appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William had accepted.

* 1760: Pomeranian Campaign ( as Swedish soldier ; captured by Prussia ; changed sides )

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

In the long reign of King George III, ( 1760 – 1820 ), the design of the silver penny changed subtly several times, with three obverses and five reverses.

While the silver threepence was minted as a currency coin until nearly the middle of the 20th century, it is clear that the purpose of the coin changed during the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ).

The origin of the Rothschild Banking families begins in 1760, when Mayer Amschel Bauer changed his name from Bauer to Rothschild, after the red hexagram.

In 1760 Reynolds moved into a large house, with space to show his works and accommodate his assistants, on the west side of Leicester Fields ( now Leicester Square ).

These four productions, with other occasional sermons, were in 1760 republished collectively, in three volumes, at Amsterdam, and preceded by an Essai historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Abbadie.

Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.

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.

That season, Adrian Peterson led the NFL with 1760 rushing yards, breaking the franchise.

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.

On 8 November 1760, Clement XIII issued a Papal bull Quantum ornamenti, which approved the request of King Charles III of Spain to invoke the Immaculate Conception as the Patroness of the Spanish Kingdom, along with its eastern and western territories, while also maintaining Saint James the Greater be given a distinguished honor as co-patron.

Significant privatizations of this nature occurred from 1760 to 1820, coincident with the industrial revolution in that country.

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.

These dates do not correspond with the fighting on mainland North America, where the fighting between the two colonial powers was largely concluded in six years, from the Battle of Jumonville Glen in 1754 to the capture of Montreal in 1760.

In September 1760, Governor Vaudreuil negotiated a surrender with General Amherst.

In 1760 the elder Balzac set off for Paris with only a louis coin in his pocket, determined to improve his social standing ; by 1776 he had become Secretary to the King's Council and a Freemason.

Joseph Meacham brought Lucy Wright ( 1760 – 1821 ) into the Ministry to serve with him and together they developed the Shaker form of communalism ( religious communism ).

In 1759, Putnam led a regiment in the attack on Fort Carillon ; and in 1760 he was with the British army that marched on Montreal.

Satis being worshiped by the pharaoh Sobekhotep III of the thirteenth dynasty of Egypt | thirteenth dynasty, a portion of her conical crown, the Hedjet, adorned with antelope horns shows in the fragment-c. 1760 B. C.

The Long Walk was laid out in 1760 and planted with flowering shrubs and ornamental trees.

In 1732 when he returned with other members of his family, Michael Schell purchased a substantial tract of land where he settled with his family in the Perkiomen Valley northwest of Philadelphia, an area in Upper Hanover Township later known as East Greenville, in what was then Philadelphia County and became Montgomery County in 1760.

John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760.

Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser ( son of Conrad Weiser, the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose family Derr's own paternal family had been friends ) to layout his combined land tracts, and create Derrstown.

1760 stamped by Oeben veneered in parquetry and reflecting the " new style " especially in its gilt-bronze mounts ; it is fitted with an elaborate locking mechanism typical of Oeben.

He married Princess Isabella of Parma in October 1760 — a union fashioned to bolster the 1756 defensive pact between France and Austria ( the bride's mother was the eldest daughter of the incumbent King of France )— with whom he had his only child, Maria Theresa.

Clementina Walkinshaw, Charles ' mistress from 1752 until 1760, and mother of his daughter Charlotte Stuart

His mother died in 1760, and two years later, Cristoffer married Helena Elisabeth Kolmodin, daughter of the poet Olof Kolmodin.

Nandi ( c. 1760 – October 10, 1827 ) was a daughter of Bhebhe, a past chief of the Langeni tribe and the mother of the legendary Shaka, King of the Zulus.

Nandi was born in Melmoth in 1760 into the Mhlongo people and for that reason it was also agreed that the name on the grave shall be " Princess Nandi Mhlongo, mother of King Shaka ".

In 1760 the queen mother conspired with Khande Rao, who had gone into the raja's service, to oust Hyder Ali.

After George II's death in the palace in 1760, Kensington Palace was only used for more minor royalty, including the young daughter of the Duke of Kent who was living in the Palace with her widowed mother when she was told of her accession to the throne as Queen Victoria.

His mother died, and while he was still an infant, his father, a manufacturer, married Elizabeth Horne ( 1760 – 1833 ), moved to London, and then engaged in the malting business at Hertford.

Her mother was Clementina Walkinshaw, who was mistress to the Prince from 1752 until 1760.

She married Józef Potocki in 1760 and was the mother of the writer Jan Potocki.

His mother, Hannah ( née Bacon, c. 1760 – 1845 ) was also from Massachusetts and was descended from John Bacon who came to America in 1640.

Garrard's mother died sometime between 1755 and 1760 ; afterward, his father married Elizabeth Moss, and the couple had four more children.