Somes obtained the land for development on grants from Francis Bernard, the governor of Massachusetts ; who, in 1761, still maintained an interest in securing the property for Great Britain.

It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".

In the late 1750s he began composing symphonies, and by 1761 he had composed a triptych ( Morning, Noon, and Evening ) solidly in the " contemporary " mode.

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

In 1761 during the Seven Years War a British expedition against Dominica led by Lord Rollo was successful and the island was conquered along with several other Caribbean islands.

Thus, in the broadest sense, the first electrified musical instrument was the Denis d ' or, dating from 1753, followed shortly by the Clavecin électrique by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in 1761.

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

The first successful canal was the Bridgewater Canal in North West England, which opened in 1761 and was mostly funded by The 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

A 1761 " Brief Account of the various Translations of the Bible into English " refers to the 1611 version merely as a new, compleat, and more accurate Translation, despite referring to the Great Bible by that name, and despite using the name " Rhemish Testament " for the Douay – Rheims Bible version.

In 1761, during the Seven Years ' War, the town was captured after three subsequent sieges by the Russian commander Peter Rumyantsev.

In 1567, Swiss physician Paracelsus suggested unidentified substance in mined ore ( identified as radon gas in modern times ) caused a wasting disease in miners, and in England, in 1761, John Hill made the first direct link of cancer to chemical substances by noting that excessive use of snuff may cause nasal cancer.

In 1761 he claimed to have found an epic on the subject of the hero Fingal, written by Ossian.

The Orangery was designed by Sir William Chambers, and was completed in 1761.

In 1811, prompted by discussions with a Chinese student about Chinese script, Silvestre de Sacy considered a suggestion made by Georg Zoëga in 1797 that the foreign names in Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions might be written phonetically ; he also recalled that as long ago as 1761, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy had suggested that the characters enclosed in cartouches in hieroglyphic inscriptions were proper names.

The headquarters of the Propaganda fide in Rome, North facade on Piazza di Spagna by architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Bernini, the southwest facade seen here by Francesco Borromini | Borromini: etching by Giuseppe Vasi, 1761

Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.

Between 1739 and 1761, the height of the deerskin trade era, an estimated 500, 000 to 1, 250, 000 deer were slaughtered.

During his governorship, Raffles introduced partial self-government, stopped the slave trade, became an early opponent of the Opium trade by placing strict limitations upon its importation ( much to the dismay of Calcutta ), led an expedition to rediscover and restore Borobudur and other ancient monuments, and replaced the Dutch forced agriculture system with a land tenure system of land management, probably influenced by the earlier writings of Dirk van Hogendorp ( 1761 – 1822 ).

In 1761, Boydell decided that he would attempt to trade with the French in kind — something they had refused in the past because of the poor quality of British engravings.

Shelburne was one of the first British statesmen to advocate free trade, his conversion to which he attributed to a journey he made to London in 1761, when he accompanied Adam Smith.

In 1756 he was appointed one of the commissioners for trade and plantations, and in 1761 he became chief secretary to Lord Halifax, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as well as MP of the Irish House of Commons for Killybegs ( until 1768 ) and English MP for Pontefract.

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 ).

In 1761 Hutchinson brought upon himself a storm of protest and criticism by issuing writs of assistance, documents that essentially authorized arbitrary searches by customs officials.

For some reason Coote was not entrusted with the siege operations, but loyally supported William Monson, who brought the siege to a successful end on 15 January 1761.

John Barnard's petition to Robert Sandeman brought the latter south to London from Scotland in April 1761 with his brother William and John Handasyde, an Elder from the Northumberland meeting house.

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 ).

Baji Rao and his son, Balaji Baji Rao, oversaw the period of greatest Maratha expansion ( see map at right ), brought to an end by the Maratha's defeat by an Afghan army at the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.

George Whitfield in a letter to John Wesley says that Peter Boehler, a bishop in the Moravian Church, had privately confessed in a letter that " all the damned souls would hereafter be brought out of hell " William Law in An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy ( 1761 ).

Ships brought ashore on the Torres Strait and careening | careened in preparation for cleaning the hull. In 1708, Charles Perry suggested copper sheathing explicitly as an anti-fouling device but the first experiments were not made until 1761 with the sheathing of HMS Alarm, after which the bottoms and sides of several ships ' keels and false keels were sheathed with copper plates.

The Duchess of Bronte, Frances Nisbet ( 1761 − 1831 ), is best known as the wife of British hero 1st Viscount Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, of Battle of Trafalgar fame.

Two days later, on 4 July 1761, Richardson died at Parson's Green and was buried at St. Bride's church near his first wife Martha.

His parents were the Reverend Henry Fuller ( 15 January 1713 – 23 July 1761 ) and his wife Frances, née Fuller ( 1725 – 14 February 1778 ).

William Mitford ( 10 February 1744 – 10 February 1827 ), English historian, was the elder of the two sons of John Mitford, a barrister ( died 1761 ) and his wife Philadelphia Reveley.

He was born Lemuel Abbott in Leicestershire in 1760 or 1761, the son of clergyman Lemuel Abbott, vicar of Thornton and his wife Mary.

These were John Law ( 1745 – 1810 ), bishop of Elphin ; Thomas Law ( 1759 – 1834 ), who settled in the United States in 1793, and married, as his second wife, Eliza Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington ; and George Henry Law ( 1761 – 1845 ), bishop of Chester and of Bath and Wells.

He was separated from his wife in 1761, and would have been imprisoned for debt but for the timely help of Lloyd's father, who had been an usher and was now a master at Westminster.

After his third wife died in 1761, Wayles took the mulatto slave Betty Hemings as a concubine for the rest of his life ; he had six children with her over a 12-year period.

The first Earl's wife, the former Lady Hester Grenville, daughter of the 1st Countess Temple, had earlier been created Baroness Chatham, of Chatham in the County of Kent, also in the Peerage of Great Britain, in 1761, as at that stage her husband had wished to remain a member of the House of Commons.

He married May 3, 1761 Maria Theresia Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau ( 14 February 1736 / 1740-September 25, 1806 ), daughter of Leopold-Ferdinand Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau ( Chlumec nad Cidlinou ( Chlumetz ), January 17, 1713-October 24, 1760 ) and wife ( married in Vienna, September 6, 1734 ) Maria Teresa Capece dei Marchesi di Rofrano ( June 3, 1715-November 12, 1778 ) by whom he had a daughter, Marija Teresa ( baptized on November 28, 1760 – Tours, November 2, 1834 ), married in 1778 and later divorced Wincenty Graf Tyszkiewicz ( died 1816 ), referendarz wielki litewski, and a son, Józef Antoni Poniatowski.

Count Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Ferdinand of Württemberg, 1st Duke of Urach ( Stuttgart, 6 July 1810 – Schloss Lichtenstein, 17 July 1869 ), was the son of Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg ( 1761 – 1830 ), younger brother of King Frederick I of Württemberg, by his morganatic wife, Baroness Wilhelmine von Tunderfeldt-Rhodis ( 1777 – 1822 ), who had married in 1800.

His widow, Elizabeth, became the second wife of William Smith ( 1697 – 1769 ) in 1761.

* Charlotte Aglaé d ' Orléans ( 1700 – 1761 ), wife of Francesco III, Duke of Modena

He was a son of United Empire Loyalist Major Nicholas Hagerman ( 1761 – 1819 ) J. P., and his wife Anne ( 1758 – 1847 ), daughter of John and Mary ( Campbell ) Fisher, formerly of Killin.

Laura Bridgman was born at Hanover, New Hampshire, being the third daughter of Daniel Bridgman, a Baptist farmer, and his wife Harmony, daughter of Cushman Downer, and granddaughter of Joseph Downer, one of the five first settlers ( 1761 ) of Thetford, Vermont.

) was home to John Ponsonby, speaker of the Irish House of Commons ( 1753 – 1761 ), William Ponsonby, leader of the Irish Whigs ( 1789 – 1803 ) and birthplace of his brother George Ponsonby ( 1755 – 1817 ) leader of the Whig Party in the British House of Commons at Westminster ( 1808 – 1817 ), his uncle Major-General Sir William Ponsonby ( 1772 – 1815 ) whose inept charge at the Battle of Waterloo resulted in his death at the hands of the Polish Landers and was studied as an example of failed battle strategy for generations afterwards, and of his sister Mary Ponsonby, wife of Charles Grey, British Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834 and best known nowadays as the Earl Grey of the tea brand.