In 1757, he engaged in a bitter dispute with playwright Carlo Gozzi, which left him utterly disgusted with the tastes of his countrymen ; so much so that in 1761 he moved to Paris, where he received a position at court and was put in charge of the Theatre Italien.

In 1761 Pitt had received information from his agents about a secret Bourbon Family Compact by which the Bourbons of France and Spain bound themselves in an offensive alliance against Britain.

It received its act of incorporation June 16, 1761, under the name of Goffstown, which was conferred on it in honor of Colonel John Goffe, for several years a resident of Bedford, and the first judge of probate in the county of Hillsborough.

He received his first instructions in art at an academy of painting at Bayreuth ; and in 1761, to continue his studies, he went first to Rome, and next to Bologna, where he distinguished himself sufficiently to attain in 1769 admission to the academy.

Malone's final examination at Trinity was in the Michaelmas term in 1761, and he received his BA degree at the following Commencement on 23 February 1762.

He'd received — on payment of £ 3 6s 8d — admittance to the Inner Temple in London in 1761, but did not begin his law studies until the new year in 1763.

Annopol received city rights in 1761, lost them in 1869 and regained in 1969.

He was educated at the Collège des Quatre-Nations ( also known as Collège Mazarin ) from 1754 to 1761, studying chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.

Bertrand Andrieu ( November 4, 1761 – December 10, 1822 ) was a French engraver of medals from Bordeaux.

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.

He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761 and from 1774 to 1790.

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.

* 1761 – The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.

In France, the Parlement de Paris, with its strong upper bourgeois background and Jansenist sympathies, opened the pressure to expel the Jesuits from France in the spring of 1761, and the published excerpts from Jesuit writings, the Extrait des assertions, provided anti-Jesuit ammunition ( though, arguably, many of the statements the Extrait contained were made to look worse than they were through judicious omission of context ).

In 1761 the French ship Utile, carrying slaves from Madagascar to Mauritius, ran onto the reefs of the island.

In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London ( now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members ); and from 1769 on, he submitted works to the Royal Academy's annual exhibitions.

On the other hand, it is not too much to say that, from the end of 1759 to the end of 1761, the unshakable firmness of the Russian Empress was the one constraining political force which held together the heterogeneous, incessantly jarring elements of the anti-Prussian combination.

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) had two Kapellmeister positions: first, from ( probably ) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin, then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family.

( He was Vice-Kapellmeister from 1761 to 1766.

In December 1761 he published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language.

* East Florida and West Florida, acquired from Spain in 1763 in exchange for returning Cuba, taken from Spain in 1761 ; the Floridas were recovered by Spain in 1783.

* Dominica-The island was captured from the French in 1761.

In 1756, after the deaths of his uncle and father, John became the fourth Earl of Dunmore, and sat as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790.

It is said that the 17th century French physician Pierre Fauchard ( 1678 – 1761 ) started dentistry science as we know it today, and he has been named " the father of modern dentistry ".

His father, Hyder Ali, was a military officer in service to the Kingdom of Mysore ; he rapidly rose in power, and became the de facto ruler of Mysore in 1761.

His father had died in 1761, so when he turned 21 he inherited the impressive estate of Revesby Abbey, in Lincolnshire, becoming the local squire and magistrate, and sharing his time between Lincolnshire and London.

He was taken out of school by his father in 1761 to attend the coronation of George III, who would become one of his most bitter enemies, and once more in 1763 to visit the Continent ; to Paris and Spa.

He lost his father in 1761, when he was four.

While Clinton was campaigning with the army in 1761, his father died.

He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, and was elected to sit in the Parliament for Weobley in 1761 before entering the Lords when he succeeded his father as Duke of Portland the next year.

There was a break in his military career between wars when he served as first secretary to his father and as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the Irish House of Commons for Portarlington from 1733 until 1761.

Nathaniel, born at Macon Manor, was the sixth child of Gideon and Priscilla, and he was only two when his father died in 1761.

At Easter 1752 Parr was sent to Harrow School as a free scholar, and when he left in the spring 1761, he began to assist his father in his medical practice.

However, following the death of his father in 1761 he succeeded him as 2nd Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland and 2nd Baron Wycombe in the Peerage of Great Britain he ceased to sit in either House of Commons and moved up to the House of Lords.

Grantham entered parliament as member for Christchurch in 1761, and succeeded to the peerage, because of his father death, in 1770.

Simeon Baldwin ( December 14, 1761 – May 26, 1851 ) was son-in-law of Roger Sherman, father of Connecticut Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin and the grandfather of Connecticut Governor Simeon Eben Baldwin.

* John Adams, Sr. ( 1691 – 1761 ), father and grandfather of two US presidents, whose home is a National Historic Site

* Kaspar Maria von Sternberg ( 1761 – 1838 ), the " father of paleobotany "

* unknown-Pierre Fauchard, physician and " father of modern dentistry " ( died 1761 )

Both the first Earl's father, William Henry Lambton ( 1764 – 1797 ), and grandfather, Major-General John Lambton ( 1710 – 1794 ), as well as his great-uncle Henry Lambton ( 1697 – 1761 ), represented the City of Durham in Parliament.

* Cecil Forester, the younger brother of Brooke Forester, held the same seat from 1761 to 1768, during a gap in George's representation of it, and was the father of the 1st Lord Forester.

* 1761 Adoptive father died.

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.

Hebel's father, who had moved to southern Baden from the Hunsrück area, died of typhus early in 1761, as did his younger sister, who was only a few weeks old.

On 1 December 1761 ; her father, a soldier named Joseph Grosholtz, was killed in the Seven Years ' War just two months before Marie was born.

Shakbut's father, Dhiyab bin Isa, had sent a hunting party from Liwa in 1761 which tracked a gazelle to a brackish spring on the island.