The British Fleet Entering Havana, 21 August 1762, a 1775 painting by Dominic Serres.

* 1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.

* 1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years ' War.

In 1762, the Kingdom of Great Britain invaded Cuba in the Battle of Havana, and peasant guerrillas led by Pepe Antonio, a Guanabacoa councilman, used machetes in the defense of the city.

Many troops from North America were reassigned to participate in further British actions in the West Indies, including the capture of Spanish Havana when Spain belatedly entered the conflict on the side of France, and a British expedition against French Martinique in 1762.

During the occupation of Havana by British forces between August 1762 and July 1763, quantities of Cuban or Havanna mahogany were sent to Britain, and after the city was restored to Spain in 1763 small quantities continue to be exported, mostly to small ports on the north coast of Jamaica, from where it was sent to Britain.

The Piazza ( or main square ) in central Havana, Cuba, in 1762, during the Seven Years ' War.

In 1762, he survived a shipwreck during the British expedition against Cuba that led to the capture of Havana.

His eldest son, the third Earl, was also a successful military commander, best known as the commander-in-chief of the invasion and occupation of Havana and west Cuba in 1762.

He served as adjutant-general of the force that captured Havana in 1762, playing a part in a skirmish at Guanabacoa.

In 1762 he was appointed to the command of the naval forces in the combined expedition which took Havana.

Despite being an Anglophile he suspected the British coveted Brazil and he was alarmed by the seeming ease by which they had taken Havana and Manila from Spain in 1762.

In her he had an important share in the reduction of Belle Île in June 1761, and of Havana in August 1762.

His good service led to his promotion to lieutenant on 17 March 1762 by Sir George Rodney, and Phipps went on to serve in the battle of Havana.

* Havana 1762

Originally, the contradanza was of English origin and was most likely introduced by three different ways to Cuba in 1762 with the invasion of the British to Havana, Spanish colonists, and French colonists ( who were fleeing the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804 ).

Next, he served at the Battle of Havana in 1762.

The 2nd Battalion was sent to Nova Scotia in 1757, and saw service in the Seven Years ' War, capturing Louisburg in 1758, Guadeloupe in 1762 and Havana in 1763, returning home in 1764.

*, a second-rate, renamed Marlborough 1706 ; fought in the Seven Years ' War ; present in Sir George Pocock's fleet at the taking of Havana from the Spanish 1762 ; foundered at sea 1762.

When Spain joined France in 1762 he was sent as second in command with Sir George Pocock in the British expedition against Cuba which took Havana.

It is possible that Roche served with Wolfe at the siege of Quebec in 1759 ; it is a certainty that he distinguished himself in 1762 during the capture of El Morro in Havana.

1765 – After the siege of Havana in 1762 by the British, King Charles III appoints Field Marshal Alejandro O ' Reilly ( Alexander O ' Reilly ) and Royal Engineer Tomás O ' Daly ( Thomas O ' Daly ) to reform San Juan's fortifications and reorganize the garrison to make the city a " Defense of the First Order ".

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

In 1762 he was promoted to Lieutenant, but was placed on half pay when the Seven Years ' War ended in 1763.

Brown owes its founding to the support of learning among a Baptist Church association but in 1762, the Baptist Minister Morgan Edwards was at first ridiculed for suggesting the founding of a college.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

Robert Adam's brother James was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of Clérisseau ; he invented a British Order, of which his ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting, is at the Avery Library, Columbia University.

For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.

The Encyclopédie was edited by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Denis Diderot and published in 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765, and 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772.

The effect of the time of repose was explained by Musschenbroek ( 1762 ) by considering the surfaces of fibrous materials, with fibers meshing together, which takes a finite time in which the friction increases.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814 ) was a German philosopher.

Grenada was captured by the British during the Seven Years ' War on 4 March 1762 by Commodore Swanton without a shot being fired.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

In 1643 there appeared Ivan Uzhevych's Grammatica sclavonica and, in 1762, the Short Introduction to English Grammar of Robert Lowth was also published.

This led to a further decline in his output around 1762, however, he was still capable of composing music of highest quality, and continued to write until his death on the evening of 25 June 1767.

Fingal written in 1762 was speedily translated into many European languages, and its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature, influencing Herder and Goethe.

In 1762 Russia, France and Austria were on the verge of crushing Prussia, when the Anglo-Prussian Alliance was saved by the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.

It was announced that he had died of " apoplexy ", and in 1762 she became ruler.

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

Johann Tobias Krebs ( 7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762 ) was a German organist and composer.

Soon after the colony was founded, a Sabah became leader, ruling until his death in 1762.

In 1762, Sabah I died and was succeeded by his youngest son, Abdullah.