In 1762, Ahmad Shah crossed the passes from Afghanistan for the sixth time to subdue the Sikhs.

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.

Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.

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

The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ( 1759 ); Candide: or, The Optimist ( 1762 ); and Candide: or, Optimism ( 1947 ).

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.

3: 6 Trio Sonatas for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo ( 1762 )

5: 6 Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin and Cello ( ad libitum ) ( 1762 )

Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana for French ownership from Spain in 1800 under the Treaty of San Ildefonso, after being a Spanish colony since 1762.

Sterne continued to struggle with his illness, and departed England for France in 1762 in an effort to find a climate that would alleviate his suffering.

* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention ; he withdrew to Mazarin college, where he worked actively for some years, and there died of an attack of gout aggravated by over-work in 1762.

His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village ( 1762 ), began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century.

* 1762 – Seven Years ' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.

Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Territory in 1762.

A session for an Indian treaty was held in the original church building in 1762.

On 6 January 1762, he wrote to Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, " We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiation, whatever fragments of my territory we can save from the avidity of my enemies ", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to seek a soldier's death on the first opportunity.

Peter III ( 21 February 1728 – ) () was Emperor of Russia for six months in 1762.

They were preparing to face 27, 000 Danish troops under the French general Count St. Germain in case the Russian-Denmark freedom conference, scheduled for 1 July 1762 in Berlin under the patronage of Frederick II, failed to resolve the issue.

By 1762 he was a full member of the Drury Lane company, and he remained there for the rest of his career, while also playing summer seasons at the Haymarket.

Zuccarelli held a sale of his canvases in 1762 at Prestage and Hobbs in London before his departure for Italy.

By 1762, the children were ready to work as concert performers, and Leopold began taking the family on extensive concert tours, performing for both aristocracy and public, throughout central and western Europe.

The year 1762 proved to be very important for Galvani.

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.

Spain's alliance with the French pitched them into direct conflict with the British, and in 1762 a British expedition of five warships and 4, 000 troops set out from Portsmouth to capture Cuba.

In 1753, following his return from Bologna he defected to the Teatro San Luca of the Vendramin family where he performed most of his plays to 1762.

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.

He also married Mary Brownson, a woman five years his senior, from the nearby town of Roxbury, in July 1762.

Their emigration left the Sabahs in undisputed control, and by the end of Abdullah I's long rule ( 1762 – 1812 ), Sabah rule was secure, and the political hierarchy in Kuwait was well established, the merchants deferring to direct orders from the Shaikh.

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

The territory's boundaries had not been defined in the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau that ceded it from France to Spain, nor the 1800 Third Treaty of San Ildefonso ceding it back to France, nor the 1803 Louisiana Purchase agreement ceding it to the United States.

In the South East corner of Kew Gardens stands the Great Pagoda ( by Sir William Chambers ), erected in 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta.

Born in Wellington, Shropshire, England, he attended Edinburgh Medical School from 1762 to 1766.

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.

" The great event which snatched him from destruction was the death of the Russian empress ( 5 January 1762 ( N. S.

In spring 1762 Spanish troops invaded Portugal from the north as far as the Douro, while a second column captured Almeida and threatened to advance on Lisbon.

During the occupation of Havana by British forces between August 1762 and July 1763, quantities of Cuban or Havanna mahogany were sent to Britain, and after the city was restored to Spain in 1763 small quantities continue to be exported, mostly to small ports on the north coast of Jamaica, from where it was sent to Britain.

After Peter gained the throne in 1762, he withdrew from the Seven Years ' War and made peace with Prussia ( the " Miracle of the House of Brandenburg ").

One of his most popular reforms was the manifesto of February 1762 that exempted the nobility from obligatory state and military service ( established by Peter the Great ) and gave them freedom to travel abroad.

* Grenada-The island was conquered from France in 1762.

He designed a number of private houses from 1762 to 1778, though most of these no longer exist ; notable survivors include the Hôtel Alexandre and Hôtel de Brunoy, both in Paris.

In 1762, Boone and his wife and four children moved back to the Yadkin Valley from Culpeper.

After occupying Manila from 1762 – 64, during the Thirty years war between Spain and Great Britain, the British Army withdrew to the south.