France controlled this vast area from 1699 until 1762, the year it gave the territory to its ally Spain.

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.

In 1762 he went to the Collège de la Trinité at Lyon, where, one year after he had begun studying, he was made a teacher of physics at the age of just seventeen.

Major efforts at settlement began with the Queensbury Patent in 1762, which enticed Quaker settlers to move into the area known as the " Township of Queensbury " the next year.

Over the years they would have 12 children: Mary ( 1754 ), Lois ( 1756 ), Miriam ( 1758 ), Rhoda ( 1760 ), Hannah ( who died as an infant in 1762 ), Levi ( 1763 ), Migale ( 1765, died that same year ), Johnathan ( 1768 ), Ezra ( 1770 ), Sarah ( 1773 ), Hannah ( 1776, also died as an infant ) and a child that was never registered.

The decision to resign was most likely due to the increasing demands of his legal practice and the reduced profit from the lectures, which, after peaking at £ 340 in 1762, dropped to £ 239 a year later and to £ 203 for the final round of lectures in 1765-6.

The Pacco Qillo was established by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro in the year 1762 and had become one of the largest military garrison s in the region.

By the Treaty of St. Petersburg in 1762 Russia made peace and restored all conquests ; Sweden made peace in the same year.

At the height of Dutch whaling in the year 1762, 1, 186 mariners from Föhr were serving on Dutch vessels at Greenland and Svalbard and 25 % of all shipmasters on Dutch whaling vessels were people from Föhr.

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.

After the accession of George III Hardwicke opposed the ministry of Lord Bute on the peace with France in 1762, and on the cider tax in the following year.

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

He had been made a Knight of the Garter on 27 May 1762, and invested on 22 September of that year.

The 7th Dalai Lama died in 1757, and the 8th, Jamphel Gyatso, was born the following year, and was identified and brought to Lhasa in 1762.

The year 1762 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Events from the year 1762 in Canada.

The so-called Éloge de Crébillon ( 1762 ) ( the title meant ironically ), which appeared in the year of the poet's death, was generally attributed to Voltaire, though he strenuously denied the authorship.

In early 1762 Dance was measuring and drawing the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli and later that year he entered a competition organised by the Accademia di Parma to design A Public Gallery for Statues, Pictures & c .. His drawings were dispatched to Parma in April 1763, and a few weeks later it was announced that he had won the Gold Medal, and his designs were exhibited at the Ducal Palace.

However, in that year ill health forced his return to England, followed by the resignation of his commission in the 14th Foot in 1762.

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

At the height of Dutch whaling in the year 1762, 1, 186 seamen from Föhr were serving on Dutch whaling vessels alone and 25 % of all shipmasters on Dutch whaling vessels were people from Föhr.

He became a Privy Councillor in 1762, a general in 1765, and a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in that same year.

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

The year 1706 had indeed proved to be the Allies ' annus mirabilis.

The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.

1947 proved to be a particularly difficult year for the government ; an exceptionally cold winter that year caused coal mines to freeze and cease production, creating widespread power cuts and food shortages.

This probably convinced him that the sum equals π < sup > 2 </ sup > / 6, which he proved in the same year.

The 1924 season proved to be arguably the strangest year in Essendon's entire history.

His reputation swelled further with the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in the same year in Berlin, and which proved another great propaganda success for the regime as orchestrated by master propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

That same year, investigation proved convicts still had ample access to illicit drugs and four inmates from the Dr. S. Van Mesdagkliniek were arrested for possession of child pornography.

The 2010 season proved a big year for the Jaguars on the field as well.

Although Schrödinger himself after a year proved the equivalence of his wave-mechanics and Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, the reconciliation of the two approaches and their modern abstraction as motions in Hilbert space is generally attributed to Paul Dirac, who wrote a lucid account in his 1930 classic Principles of Quantum Mechanics.

Hunt won on three occasions that year but the Lauda and Ferrari combination proved too strong, Hunt and McLaren managing just fifth and third in the respective championships.

Newton's apparent influence and charisma proved beneficial to him and his parish when local Evangelical merchant, John Thornton, to whom he had sent a copy of his autobiography, offered the parish £ 200 per year, requesting that Newton, in part, provided for the poor.

A constitution was also promulgated in the same year, but it proved ineffective because of the foreign origin of its liberal, democratic tenets.

At the Council of Clermont held in November of the same year, Urban II's sermon proved highly effective, as he summoned the attending nobility and the people to wrest the Holy Land and the eastern churches generally from the control of the Seljuk Turks.

Both proved popular, however Richmond Hill emerged as only a moderate success and was cancelled after one year to be replaced on Ten by E Street ( 1989 – 1993 ).

Per capita GDP growth has proved mediocre, though improving, growing by 1. 6 % a year from 1994 to 2009, and by 2. 2 % over the 2000 – 09 decade.

Desperately needing a win against the Dodgers in the final game of the year to force a one-game playoff with the Braves in San Francisco, the controversial choice of Giants rookie pitcher Salomon Torres proved disastrous as he gave up three runs in the first four innings and the Giants went on to lose the game 12 – 1.

2009 proved to be especially good for Bullock, giving the actress two record highs in her career, as earlier in the year she released The Proposal, with co-star Ryan Reynolds, a huge hit that took in more than $ 314 million at the box office worldwide, making it her most successful picture to date.

2007 has proved to be the most prolific year of touring since the reunion.

Though Democrats reinstated the disappearing quorum when they took control of the House the following year, Reed as minority leader proved so adroit at using the tactic against them that Democrats reinstated Reed Rules in 1894.

: Theorem ( name of person who proved it and year of discovery, proof or publication ).

It has been estimated that over a quarter of a million theorems are proved every year.

In the elections of 1828 the new party proved unexpectedly strong, and after this year it became the main opposition party in New York.

The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the Norse were not able to mount a further attack that year.