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.

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.

Among the most important were the Journal Œconomique ( 1721 – 1772 ), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce ( 1759 – 1762 ), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon ( 1680 – 1734 ), and two dominated by physiocrats ; the Journal de l ' agriculture, du commerce et des finances ( 1765 – 1774 ) and the Ephémérides du citoyen ( 1767 – 1772 and 1774 – 1776 ).

In the summer of 1762 he was promoted to colonel, receiving the command of the 12th Regiment of Foot in 1766.

In 1761, he was promoted to major general, and in 1762, again with the assistance of his brother, was placed in command of the 22nd Regiment, which assured a command even in peacetime.

On 16 September 1762, St. Leger was promoted to major in the 95th Regiment of Foot.

With the accession of Peter III of Russia, formerly Duke of Holstein, formerly elected King of Sweden by the Swedish Parliament, former King of Finland by his aunt decision, the Russian Empress, soon to be assassinated after only 6 months of being " promoted " to new Emperor of Russia, he received instructions ( May 1762 ) to join his forces with the former enemies, the Prussians.

In 1762 Amherst promoted him to colonel, and temporarily gave him the military governorship of Trois-Rivières while its governor, Ralph Burton was called to serve in the Caribbean.

He became Rear Admiral in October 1762, was one of the Admiralty Board from July 1765 to November 1766, and was promoted Vice Admiral on 24 October 1770.

He won special distinction at the battle of Freiberg ( September 29, 1762 ), for which Frederick promoted him major.

Laptev was promoted to Vice Admiral rank in 1762, and retired same year.

The next year he became a Deputy Quartermaster-General and major of foot, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1762.

He was promoted to Major-General in 1759 and took part in the British expedition against Cuba in 1762, being 2nd-in-charge at the capture of Havana during the final year of the conflict for which he received a significant amount of prize money.

As a Midshipman he received £ 1, 800 in prize money for his part in the capture of the Spanish treasure ship Hermione on 21 May 1762, and was subsequently promoted to Lieutenant.

In 1762, Spiridov was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and assigned to command a squadron for securing the contact with the Russian army in Prussia.

Lee went back to Europe, transferred to the 103rd Foot as a major, and served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Portuguese army, fighting against the Spanish invasion of Portugal ( 1762 ) in which he distinguished himself under John Burgoyne at the Battle of Vila Velha.

On July 21, 1762 the Lieutenant Governor and Council of Nova Scotia declared that " the Townships of Liverpool, Barrington and Yarmouth together with the intermediate lands should be erected into a county by the name of Queens County ".

* John Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth ( 1714 – 1762 ), Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire

In 1762 a quarrel with Müller placed him in a position of some difficulty from which he was delivered by an introduction to Count Rasumovski, who procured his appointment as adjunct to the Academy.

After getting established, on April 21, 1762, Boudinot married Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ), Richard's younger sister.

* Elements of Criticism ( 1762 ) Discarding all arbitrary rules of literary composition, he endeavors to establish a new theory on the principles of human nature.

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

* Émile: or, on Education ( Émile ou de l ' éducation ), 1762

* 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.

In 1762 Lind's Essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen appeared.

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.

Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.

When the enemy ’ s heavy forces marched on December 1762 and arrived at Harnamadi in January 1763, they found all the local houses already evacuated and the area short of food provisions.

To the arrêt of 2 August 1762, by which the Parlement suppressed the Jesuits in France, imposing untenable conditions on any wishing to remain in the country, Clement XIII replied by a protest against the invasion of the Church's rights, and annulled the arrêts.

A secret convention pledged that if Britain and France were still at war by 1 May 1762, Spain would enter the war on the French side.

Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have committed suicide.

Year 1762 ( MDCCLXII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The descent of the French on St. John's, Newfoundland, 1762.

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), in his influential 1762 treatise The Social Contract, outlined a different version of social contract theory, as the foundations of political rights based on unlimited popular sovereignty.

Subsequent contributions to the Transactions contained his observations of the transits of Venus ( 1761 and 1769 ), on the tides at Saint Helena ( 1762 ), and on various astronomical phenomena at Saint Helena ( 1764 ) and at Barbados ( 1764 ).