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Middleton gained recognition for his courageous, calm and steady temperament during the Anglo-Cherokee War between 1760 and 1761.
In 1761, during the Seven Years ' War, the town was captured after three subsequent sieges by the Russian commander Peter Rumyantsev.
* Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois ( 1761 – 1848 ), admiral during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte
They concluded that Lomonosov's telescope was fully adequate to the task of detecting the arc of light around Venus off the Sun's disc during ingress or egress if proper experimental techniques as described by Lomonosov in his 1761 paper are employed.
Some of the first Europeans to visit the area are thought to have been British Army deserters from Fort Pitt, who reportedly fled their post in 1761 during the French and Indian War and roamed northwestern Virginia for several years thereafter.
It was named for Bland Ballard ( 1761 – 1853 ), a Kentucky pioneer and soldier who served as a scout for General George Rogers Clark during the American Revolutionary War, and later commanded a company during the War of 1812.
But hostilities during the French and Indian War delayed settlement, and in 1761, it was regranted as New Holderness ( although " New " would be dropped in 1816 ).
Settled in 1761, the town was originally named " New Breton ," having been granted primarily to soldiers who had taken part in the 1745 capture of Cape Breton during hostilities with the French in Canada.
The inscriptions made in 1683 were removed during the repairs of 1761 – 84.
* Siege of Cassel ( 1761 ) during the Seven Years ' War
The diurnal parallax of the Sun was accurately measured during the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, yielding a value of 9 ″ ( compared to the present 1976 value of 8. 794148 ″).
With the population increase during the town's silver mining heyday of the mid-sixteenth century came the need for a new church, which was built over a period 21 years and inaugurated in 1761.
Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.
He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt who he served with in government during Britain's participation in the Seven Years War between 1756 and 1761.
William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC ( 2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805 ), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782 – 1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence.
In 1761 the Royal Council awarded a royal privilege to the heirs of an author rather than the author's publisher, sparking a national debate on the nature of literary property similar to that taking place in Britain during the battle of the booksellers.
In March 1761 Halifax was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and during part of the time which he held this office he was also First Lord of the Admiralty.
* 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.
File: The Third battle of Panipat 13 January 1761. jpg | Nawabs in battle during the Battle of Panipat ( 1761 )
* was a 28-gun sixth rate frigate launched in 1761 and wrecked during combat in 1778.
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 ).
He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 20 December 1756, transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and on 14 December 1761, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot, before in May 1762, transferring to the 50th Regiment of Foot, with which regiment he served in Germany during the Seven Years War.

1761 and Seven
* 1761Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
Charles revived the Family Compact with France on 15 August 1761 and joined in the Seven Years ' War against Britain in 1762 ; the reformist policies he had espoused in Naples were pursued with similar energy in Spain, where he completely overhauled the cumbersome bureaucracy of the state.
First called Number Seven in a line of Connecticut River fort towns, Orford was incorporated in 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth and named for Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, who was England's first prime minister.
The brothers Samuel and John Pringle were English soldiers serving in the French and Indian War ( Seven Years ' War ) who in 1761 deserted their post at Fort Pitt ( present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ).
Imposition of such a tax on the colonies had been considered twice before the Seven Years ' War and once again in 1761.
He spent the remaining years of the Seven Years ' War ( 1761 to 1763 ) as a diplomat and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris that eventually conceded most of New France to the British Empire.
In 1761 Spain concluded an alliance with France by which Spain would enter the Seven Years ' War in an effort to prevent British hegemony.
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.
He served as ambassador extraordinary to Poland ( 1752 – 56 ), was recalled at the outbreak of the Seven Years War, was made a Chevalier des Ordres du Roi ( 1757 ), a lieutenant général ( 1760 ), commandant in Franche-Comté ( 1761 – 62 ), then after the peace, Governor of Saumurois ( 1770 ).
War again affected the city during 1756-1763, during the Seven Years ' War ; it was the scene of a battle in February 1761.
* The Anglo-Spanish War ( 1761 – 1763 ) was part of the Seven Years ' War
An elegy ‘ Aurelius ’ for Herring was printed in 1761 with the ‘ Original Poems and Translations ’ of Fawkes ; and reprinted in 1763 in the volume of ‘ Seven Sermons by Archbishop Herring ’.
The fort was built from 1759 to 1761 during the French and Indian War ( Seven Years War ), next to the site of former Fort Duquesne, at the confluence the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River.
During the Seven Years ' War the Regiment won its first formal Battle honour as part of the expedition that captured Belle Île from the French in 1761.
* Battle of Langensalza ( 1761 ), an engagement between French forces and allied Prussian and Hanoverian forces during the Seven Years ' War
During the Seven Years ' War, the Russian Baltic Sea fleet was active on the Pomeranian coast, helping the infantry to take Memel in 1757 and Kolberg in 1761.
In the Seven Years ' War Hood fought at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, and in 1761 Minerva recaptured after a long struggle, the 60-gun HMS Warwick of equal force, which had been captured by the French in 1756.
Magra entered the Royal Navy as ' Captain's Servant ' in May 1761 and served in European waters until the end of the Seven Years ' War.
The ruins of Pondicherry destroyed by the British in 1761 ( Seven Years War ).

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