At the back of the village, behind the Selborne Arms and Gilbert White's Field Studies Centre, there is the Zig-Zag Path, which was cut into the hillside in the 1760s by Gilbert White and his brother John, to provide easier access to the Hanger and Selborne Common.

Maxent and Laclede formed a partnership in the early 1760s to build a French trading post on the west bank of the Mississippi River north of the village of Ste.

By the 1760s, all Near Islanders had moved into a single village on Attu Island.

The Burmese, who had taken control of Lanna and had also unified their kingdom under the powerful Konbaung Dynasty, launched several blows against Ayutthaya in the 1750s and 1760s.

* Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, known also as James Albert, lived with his family in the town in the 1760s and 1770.

A war with Burma also occurred in the 1760s due to the attempted consolidation of borderlands under local chiefs by both China and Burma.

Grapes, first planted in the 1760s, led to the modern grape and wine industry of the town and also led to the annual grape festival which began in 1861, one of which was broadcast on the World Food Network.

Personal factors may also have played a role in Bowdoin's shift in views: John Temple, the local customs commissioner and Bowdoin's son in law, was embroiled in nasty disputes with Governor Francis Bernard in the 1760s.

Among a few well known historic examples are the Scottish soldiers, who wore the blue bonnet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Volontaires Cantabres, a French force raised in the Basque country in the 1740s to the 1760s, who also wore a blue beret, and the Carlist rebels, with their red berets, in 1830s Spain.

A contemporary engraving of the 1760s appears to show a horse facing in the opposite direction, and also rather smaller than the present figure.

Around these chapels there are four Baroque fountains with statues of the Evangelists, also dating from the 1760s.

The Michel family also owned Dewlish House in Dewlish, Dorset and removed there sometime during the 1760s when the house was then let.

The Vestry House adjoining the south west of the church, replacing the one built in the 1760s, may also have been by Smirke.

Luton Hoo Estate also possesses a octagonal walled garden which was established by John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, in the late 1760s.

Since the 1760s, archaeological research also began to focus on vase paintings.

In the 1750s and 1760s, Chelsea was also famous for its toys, which included bonbonnières, scent bottles, étuis, thimbles and small seals, many with inscriptions in French.

In the mid 1760s Robert Mylne was employed to reface the courtyard in stone, and he may also have been responsible for extensions to the two garden wings which were made at this time.

His great-great-grandfather, also Hugh Tennent, founded the Tennent ’ s Wellpark Brewery, Glasgow in the 1760s.

Les Danaïdes followed in the tradition of reform that Gluck had begun in the 1760s and that Salieri had emulated in his earlier opera Armida.

By the 1760s hymns had become an established feature of religious devotion in the Evangelical church, where early ( post-Reformation ) hymns were versifications ( producing song-like verses from the original words of the psalms ) of the biblical text of the psalms, known as metrical psalms.

His account is based upon a letter written by Obadiah Poundage ( who had worked for decades in the London brewing trade ) in the 1760s.

Despite increasing internal disorder, Bhutan had maintained its control over a portion of the Assam Duars more or less since its reduction of Cooch Behar to a dependency in the 1760s.

By the early 1760s du Pont's writings on the national economy had drawn the attention of intellectuals such as Voltaire and Turgot.

The Niagara Portage had a gravity railway in the 1760s.

In the late 1760s, tensions between ( in a nutshell ) Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the Regulator movement or, as it was known, the War of the Regulation, which had its epicenter in Hillsborough.

With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.

Working within the framework of Newtonian mechanism, Cavendish had tackled the problem of the nature of heat in the 1760s, explaining heat as the result of the motion of matter.

Adventuresome townspeople had been attempting this before the Revolution — an early attempt to settle the then-wild Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania in the 1760s ended in disaster — but in the 1790s small groups began leaving to help settle new towns in upstate New York and, later, Ohio.

Part of a loose confederacy of 20 or more tribes, it is believed that by the 1760s, the Keyauwee had moved south close to the boundary between the two Carolinas where they were likely absorbed by the Catawba tribe.

A grist mill, powered by the spring water, had operated at that location since at least the 1760s.

A grist mill, which was powered by the spring water, had operated at that location since at least the 1760s.

She had two plays produced in London in the early 1760s, though she is best known for her novel The Memoirs of Sidney Biddulph ( 1761 ).

Indoors, neoclassicism made a discovery of the genuine classic interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum, which had started in the late 1740s, but only achieved a wide audience in the 1760s, with the first luxurious volumes of tightly controlled distribution of Le Antichità di Ercolano.

As described by modern historian Malcolm Barber in The New Knighthood: " It was during the 1760s that German masons introduced a specific Templar connection, claiming that the Order, through its occupation of the Temple of Solomon, had been the repository of secret wisdom and magical powers, which James of Molay had handed down to his successor before his execution and of which the eighteenth-century Freemasons were the direct heirs.

Although from 1714 to 1828 the British government did indeed sponsor a £ 20, 000 prize for finding a solution to the longitude problem, exactly why the connection was made to squaring the circle is not clear ; especially since two non-geometric methods ( the astronomical method of lunar distances and the mechanical chronometer ) had been found by the late 1760s.

The Hellfire Club had previously used Medmenham Abbey, 8 miles ( 13 km ) away from West Wycombe on the River Thames, as a meeting place, but the caves at West Wycombe were used for meetings in the 1750s and early 1760s.

Pitt had led the country during the Seven Years War, but he struggled to counter the many challenges facing Britain during the 1760s.

Up to the 1760s Spain had never shown any interest in the Falklands themselves and they had no Spanish name, but they did dissuade the British from forming a colony there in 1749.

Scotch-Irish settlers began arriving in the 1750s and 1760s and a small settlement soon developed.

1760s: Watches are made in London by makers such as James Cox which have a pinned drum playing popular tunes on several small bells arranged in a stack.

Born in New York City, he was engaged in overseas trade and had acquired a small fleet of ships by the time he moved to Bergen County, New Jersey, in the 1760s, and lived at " Peterfield ", a home in present-day Allendale, New Jersey that has become known as the " John Fell House ".

The River Hull has long been used for transport, and although small boats could reach Fishilme in the 1760s, that was still about short of the small town of Driffield.