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.

In 1762, Havana was briefly occupied by Great Britain, before being returned to Spain in exchange for Florida.

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.

In 1762 the Earl of Bute appointed Dashwood his Chancellor of the Exchequer, despite Dashwood being widely held to be incapable of understanding " a bar bill of five figures ".

* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.

When Paul turned eighteen, he was appointed Fleet Admiral of the Russian navy and colonel of the Cuirassier regiment, the latter of which was already granted him in 1762.

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In 1756 he was appointed under-secretary at war, in 1762 clerk of the House of Commons.

In 1762 the Earl of Bute appointed Dashwood his Chancellor of the Exchequer, despite Dashwood being widely thought to be incapable of understanding " a bar bill of five figures ".

In 1762, he negotiated for the post of Kapellmeister to the court of Darmstadt ; although he protracted the negotiations for reasons that are opaque to historians and did not actively take the post, he nevertheless was appointed " Hofkapellmeister of Hessen-Darmstadt ", a title he used in the dedication of his Harpsichord Concerto in E minor.

He was appointed justice of the peace in 1762, judge of the court of common pleas in 1765, and justice of the Superior Court of Connecticut from 1766 to 1789, when he left to become a member of the United States Congress.

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

In April 1762 Galuppi was appointed to the leading musical post in Venice, maestro di capella of St Mark's, and in July of the same year he was also appointed maestro di coro at the Ospedale degli Incurabili, at whose school he had been educated.

In 1762 he was appointed to a principal clerkship in the war office, where he formed a warm friendship with Christopher D ' Oyly, Deputy-Secretary at War, whose dismissal from office in 1772 was hotly resented by Junius.

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.

He was appointed Clockmaker to the Navy in 1762 and Clockmaker to the King in 1773.

He was appointed Treasurer of the Chamber in 1761 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1762 but was forced to resign the following year after announcing an unpopular budget and subsequently served as Master of the Great Wardrobe After leaving that post, the Barony of le Despencer was called out of abeyance for him ( in right of his mother Mary, eldest daughter of 4th Earl of Westmorland ).

In 1756 he was elected member of parliament for Appleby ; he represented Wigan from 1761 to 1768, and was appointed solicitor-general for England and knighted in 1762.

In 1762 he was appointed agent to the Earl Fitzwilliam, and held that office to within two years of his death.

He participated with his elder brothers in the coup d ' etat of 1762, after which he was appointed chief procurator of the Governing Senate.

In 1762 he was appointed assistant tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy ; on the move of the academy to Hoxton after Jennings's death in 1762 he became resident tutor, a position which he held till 1785, his colleagues being Andrew Kippis and Samuel Morton Savage ; subsequently he was tutor in Hebrew and mathematics in the New College at Hackney ( 1786 – 96 ).

In 1754, Burton was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 48th Foot, which was involved in the captures of Quebec in 1759 and Martinique and Havanna in 1762.

In 1762 he had been appointed president of the Hofkriegsrath.

In 1762, the year of his forty-second birthday, he was appointed county governor of the vast Västernorrland County, which at that time consisted of the Medelpad, Ångermanland and Jämtland provinces.