* 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

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

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

In 1762, Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of J. S.

It was proposed that the force on magnetic poles, by Johann Tobias Mayer and others in 1760, and electrically charged objects, by Henry Cavendish in 1762, obeyed an inverse-square law.

** Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher ( born 1762 )

* March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer ( d. 1762 )

After Schulze had seriously criticized the notion of a thing-in-itself, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ) produced a philosophy similar to Kant's, but without a thing-in-itself.

* Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ), philosopher, rector of the university ( 1810 – 1812 )

His son Johann Ludwig Alexius Freiherr von Laudon ( 1762 – 1822 ) fought in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with credit, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-field-marshal.

Jan Frederik Gronovius ( also seen as Johann Frederik and Johannes Fredericus ) ( 10 February 1686, Leiden – 10 July 1762, Leiden ) was a Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus.

Johann Georg Hiedler ( baptised 28 February 1792 – 9 February 1857 ) was born to Martin Hiedler ( 17 November 1762 – 10 January 1829 ) and Anna Maria Göschl ( August 23, 1760 – 7 December 1854 ).

* Johann Tobias Krebs ( 1690 – 1762 ), composer, father of J. L.

Two astronomers particularly known for attempting to expand Ptolemy's catalogue were Johann Bayer ( 1572 – 1625 ) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille ( 1713 – 1762 ).

Thinkers such as Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ) had written on the concept and importance of world history and nationalism, and Hegel's philosophy continues this trend, while breaking away from an emphasis on nationalism and striving rather to grasp the full sweep of human cultural and intellectual history as a manifestation of spirit.

Johann Ernst Eberlin ( 27 March 1702 – 19 June 1762 ) was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras.

* February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer ( died 1762 )

* March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer ( died 1762 )

The elder Mayer, himself a well-known Göttingen professor of geography, physics, and astronomy, died in 1762 when Johann was only ten.

Founded in 1795 by Johann Jacob Rieter ( 1762 – 1826 ), the company initially produced textile products.

* Johann Schmidt ( 1693 – 1762 ) – historian

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 started his career as a page of Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony, Duke of Courland and a vassal of the Polish king.

He was the son of Christian Bouck ( 1753 – 1836 ) and Margaret ( Borst ) Bouck ( 1762 – 1806 ).

Étienne Louis Geoffroy used Melolontha as a genus name ( 1762 ), but his book has been suppressed by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, and the authority for the name is the later ( 1775 ) publication by Johan Christian Fabricius.

* Karl Christian Agthe, composer, born June 16, 1762 in Hettstedt, died November 27, 1797

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Christian August Vulpius ( 23 January 1762 – 25 June 1827 ) was a German novelist and dramatist.

* Christian Louis ( 1762 – 91 )

* Edmund Ignatius Rice ( 1762 – 1844 ) Founded the Christian Brothers, Educated the poor.

The history of Bishop Heber Hall could be traced back to a similar school started by a German missionary Christian Frederick Schwartz at Trichy in 1762.

In 1762, Bach travelled to London to première three operas at the King's Theatre, including Orione on 19 February 1763.

Attempting to gain complete control, he sought to exile his rival Abd el-Rahman in 1762 when the latter was conducting the caravan of Mecca, but was instead sentenced to exile at Gaza ; Ali Bey started for that city, but on the third day made to the Hijaz where he was joined by a number of his followers, and from there travelled to Girga where he spent the next two years, until his supporters in Cairo effected his recall.

Abbé Jérôme Richard who travelled to Rome in 1762 wrote: " Female Dancers are not permitted on the stages in Rome.

Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine ; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.

Zuccarelli held a sale of his canvases in 1762 at Prestage and Hobbs in London before his departure for Italy.

Prestage & Hobbs: London, 1762.

* Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London ( 1762 – 67 ), partially demolished, the Dining Room is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Drawing Room is in Philadelphia Museum of Art

Charles Bannister ( 1738 – 1804 ), English actor and singer, was born in Gloucestershire, and after some amateur and provincial experience made his first London appearance in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket Theatre.

The success of the hoax ( at least with bookstore clerks ) may have been due in part to the popularity of James Boswell's London Journal, which was written in 1762 – 1763 but first published in 1950.

The painting that first brought him into public notice, and gained him the acquaintance and patronage of Edmund Burke, was founded on an old tradition of the landing of St Patrick on the sea-coast of Cashel, ( this is a mistake reproduced from another source, Cashel is an inland town far from the sea ) and of the conversion and Baptism of the King of Cashel It was exhibited in London in 1762 or 1763 and rediscovered in the 1980s, in unexhibitable condition.

He was a pupil at Harrow School outside London from 1762 to 1768.

* The Farmer's Return from London ( 1762 )

James Dodsons ’ s pioneering work on the level premium system led to the formation of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorship ( now commonly known as Equitable Life ) in London in 1762.

William Beckford ( 19 December 1709 – 21 June 1770 ) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London ( 1762 and 1769 ).

For example, in Spain, the multi-volume work España Sagrada made the switch with volume 16 ( 1762 ); The Times of London switched to the short s with its issue of September 10, 1803 ; and in the United States, acts of Congress were published with the long s throughout 1803, switching to the short s in 1804.

Lady Sarah refused a proposal of marriage from James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll before she married Charles Bunbury, eldest son of Reverend Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet, on 2 June 1762 at Holland House Chapel, Kensington, London.

While there, however, Franklin married Elizabeth Downes on 4 September 1762 at St George's, Hanover Square in London, England.

Franklin had one son William Temple Franklin, who was born out of wedlock on 22 Feb 1762 in the County of Middlesex, London, England.

Hemel's position on the shortest route between London and the industrial Midlands put it on the Sparrows Herne turnpike Toll road in 1762, the Grand Junction Canal in 1795 and the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837.

He was born in Ireland in 1762, but had left to train as a surgeon in London.

During 1762 negotiations for a peace agreement went on in London and Paris.

The Edinburgh-born writer James Boswell visited the Monument in 1762 to climb the 311 steps to what was then the highest viewpoint in London.

She came to London, and died in the year of her return, on 21 August 1762.

Though the gate was demolished in 1762, the name survives as a major street in the City of London.

On 27 February 1762 he married Elizabeth Macrabie, the daughter of a retired London merchant.

The latter was a descendant of Sir John Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1624, whose elder brother Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, was the ancestor of the Earls of Arran ( 1762 creation ), the Barons Annaly ( 1766 and 1789 creations ) and the Barons Harlech.