He was sent, together with his brothers, Frederick Augustus and Gotthilf Henry Ernst 1763 to Halle.

A precursor of Montesquieu and of Rousseau was Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui ( 1694 – 1750 ) in his Principes du droit naturel et politique ( 1747 and 1751, issued together in 1763 ), while the celebrated international lawyer, Emeric de Vattel ( 1714 1767 ), was a native of Neuchâtel by birth and descent, and, though he spent most of his life at foreign courts, died at Neuchâtel, not so very long after the publication of his famous Droit des gens ( 1758 ).

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

In 1763 his services to the Académie were acknowledged with an extra 200 livres in pension.

The British became the major power in the Indian sub-continent after the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) and began to show interest in Afghanistan as early as their 1809 treaty with Shuja Shah Durrani.

" His father-in-law provided the money he needed for the trip, and David headed for Rome with his wife and three of his students, one of whom, Jean-Germain Drouais ( 1763 – 1788 ), was the Prix de Rome winner of that year.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

The British East India Company, although still in direct competition with French and Dutch interests until 1763, was able to extend its control over almost the whole of India in the century following the subjugation of Bengal at the 1757 Battle of Plassey.

* 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

In this group, the explorer Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz may be the first historian of Louisiana with his Histoire de la Louisiane ( 3 vols., Paris, 1758 ; 2 vols., London, 1763 )

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

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In coalition with the rising power Prussia, defeated France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ), and won full control of Canada.

Their leader Theobald Wolfe Tone ( 1763 – 98 ) worked with the Catholic Convention of 1792 which demanded an end to the penal laws.

In 1763 he spoke against the unpopular tax on cider, imposed by his brother-in-law, George Grenville, and his opposition, though unsuccessful in the House, helped to keep alive his popularity with the country, which cordially hated the excise and all connected with it.

* October 7 – The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is issued by George III of the United Kingdom, restricting westward expansion of British North America and stabilizing relations with indigenous peoples of the Americas.

The war in North America officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763, and war in the European theatre of the Seven Years ' War was settled by the Treaty of Hubertusburg on February 15, 1763.

Benjamin Franklin, who had negotiated with the Indians during the French and Indian War, protested vehemently against the Paxton massacre that took place at Conestoga, in western Pennsylvania, of December 1763, in which white vigilantes massacred Indian women and children, many of whom had converted to Christianity.

As a result, prior to the creation of Upper Canada in 1791 as a separate colony, much land had been ceded by the First Nations to the Crown in accordance with the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

After her death her husband edited her Sämtliche kleinere Gedichte with a memoir ( 1763 ).

In April 1763, Johann Kaspar Lavater, then a young theology-student from Zurich, made a trip to Berlin, where he visited the already famous Jewish philosopher with some companions.

His brothers were both distinguished — the elder, Clemens, as an author ; the second, Joseph ( 1763 – 1835 ), as an engineer.

Samuel Mickle Fox ( 1763 – 1808 ), along with his brother George and brothers in law Joseph Parker Norris and George Roberts

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

Having been created in 1758, The Annual Register was published by the Dodsley brothers until 1763 and, following Robert Dodsley ’ s death, by James Dodsley alone until 1790.

" He was on bad terms with his younger brother, George Grenville, when the latter became first lord of the treasury in April 1763, and he had no place in that ministry ; but the brothers were reconciled before 1765, when Temple refused to join the government and persuaded Pitt to refuse likewise.

His three older brothers included John Bell ( 1763 – 1820 ), also a noted surgeon and writer ; and the advocate George Joseph Bell ( 1770 – 1843 ).

* 1692 – John Byrom, English poet ( d. 1763 )

John Baskerville printed works for the University of Cambridge in 1758 and, although an atheist, printed a splendid folio Bible in 1763.

* John Young ( pioneer ) ( 1763 – 1825 ), American surveyor

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

* 1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general ( d. 1844 )

* John Brown ( educator ) ( 1763 – 1842 ), third president of the University of Georgia

* 1848 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman ( b. 1763 )

Wylam colliery's system, built before 1763, was ; as was John Blenkinsop's Middleton Railway, the old plateway was relaid to so that Blenkinsop's engine could be used.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

* March 29 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman ( b. 1763 )

* April 22 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman ( d. 1763 )

* March 8 – King Charles XIV John of Sweden, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, French Napoleonic general ( b. 1763 )

* January 11 – John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur ( b. 1763 )

Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan ( 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844 ) was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIV John ) and King of Norway ( as Charles III John ) from 1818 until his death.

* February 29 – John Byrom, English poet ( d. 1763 )

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

* John White Abbott ( 1763 – 1851 ), English painter and surgeon

John Kinzie ( December 3, 1763 – January 6, 1828 ) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States.

It was granted in 1763 by Governor Benning Wentworth, and incorporated in 1770 by Governor John Wentworth.

First settled in 1763, Northwood was incorporated on February 6, 1773 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, when a large tract of land called " North Woods " was separated from Nottingham.