* 1760 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer ( d. 1797 )

* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

* Cyril VI Tanas, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1724 – 1760

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General ( d. 1806 )

* 1760 – Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and music educator ( d. 1826 )

* 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary ( d. 1829 )

* 1835 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier ( b. 1760 )

The Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was founded in 1760 – an institution that became the Edinburgh College of Art in 1907.

* Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760 – 1800.

* 1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer ( d. 1760 )

In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.

# 1750 – 1760 Sir Atwell Lake

# 1760 – 1770 Sir William Baker

* Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760 – 1800.

From circa 1450 – 1760, Zimbabwe gave way to the Kingdom of Mutapa.

In fact, during the reigns of the final three joint rulers ( 1760 – 1837 ), there was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821.

Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.

The founder of Hasidism, Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), became known as the Baal Shem Tov ( the " Master of the Good Name ", abbreviated " Besht ").

Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov ( or Besht ).

* 1760 – Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer ( d. 1837 )

* 1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

* 1829 – István Pauli ( Pável ) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer ( b. 1760 )

* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.

It is named after General Andrew Pickens, a Revolutionary War hero who fought the Cherokee in 1760 and 1782.

In Spain the change was mainly accomplished between the years 1760 and 1766 ; in France, the change occurred between 1782 and 1793 ; in Britain and the United States, between 1795 and 1810.

In 1760 he went out to the East Indian station, and served in the Grafton under Captain Hyde Parker ( 1714 – 1782 ) during the three following years, when he saw some active service, including a cutting-out expedition at Pondicherry.

The most important of his operas were: Lottchen am Hofe ( Lottie at court, 1760 ), Der Teufel ist los ( The devil is loose, 1768 ), Poltis, oder Das gerettete Troja ( Poltis, or Troy rescued, 1782 ).

Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong ( 1726 to 1727 and again in 1729 ), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles ( 1744 and 1752 ), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ( twice in 1759 ), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki ( 1760 ), King Stanisław August Poniatowski ( occasionally ), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg ( 1780 ), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife ( 1782 ), King Louis XVIII of France ( 1798 ), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress.

Richard Barnes Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); son of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); brother of George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ), and William Temple Thomson Mason ( 1782 – 1862 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ) and James Murray Mason ( 1798 – 1871 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); and second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ).

Pepys's original classification was updated by further definitions in 1714, 1721, 1760, 1782, 1801 and 1817 ( the last being the most severe, as it provided for including in the count of guns the carronades that had previously been excluded ).

But its chief literary glory was Isaak Iselin ( 1728 – 1782 ), one of the founders of the Helvetic Society ( 1760 ) and of the Economical Society ( 1777 ).

The organ has been restored several times-in 1760, 1782, 1804, 1855, 1861, 1879, 1891, 1924, 1949 after wartime damage and 1997-since it was first built.

* O ' Gorman, Frank, The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs 1760 – 1782 ( London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1975 )

Antoni became voivode of Poznań Voivodship in 1760, castellan of Kraków since 1782, starost of Mędzyrzecze, Busko-Zdrój, Świecie and Czehryn.

But its chief literary glory was Isaac Iselin ( 1728 – 1783 ), one of the founders of the Helvetic Society ( 1760 ) and of the Economical Society ( 1777 ), and author of a treatise on the philosophy of history entitled Geschichte dee Menschheit ( 1764 ), and of another on ideal politics, Philosophische und patriotische Trume eines Menschenfreundes ( 1755 ), while many of his economical tracts appeared ( 1776 – 1782 ) under the general title of Ephemeriden der Menschheit.

* 2000 AD # 925, 1383, 1650, 1760, 1771, 1776, 1782 ( Fleetway / Rebellion, 1995 – 2012 )

He entered the Spanish navy on the 19 September 1760, and rose to achieve the rank of Captain by 1782.

George III, elector ( ruler ) from 1760 to 1820, never once visited Hanover.

* 1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.

George II ( 1727 – 1760 ) occasionally presided at Cabinet meetings but his grandson, George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), is known to have attended only two during his 60 year reign.

As noted previously, George III ( 1760 – 1820 ) is known to have attended only two Cabinet meetings.

A crisis erupted over the writs of assistance on December 27, 1760 when the news of King George II's October 23 death arrived in Boston.

George II ( 1727 – 1760 ) enhanced the stability of the constitutional system, with a government run by Sir Robert Walpole during the period 1730-42.

George III reigned 1760 – 1820 ; he was born in Britain, never visited Hanover, and spoke English as his first language.

The domestic political situation was altered dramatically when George II died in October 1760.

George II died on 25 October 1760, and was succeeded by his grandson, George III.

* November 10 – King George II of Great Britain ( d. 1760 )

The Whigs took full control of the government in 1715, and remained totally dominant until King George III, coming to the throne in 1760, allowed Tories back in.

The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third: 1760 – 1860.

** HM King George II ( 1683 – 1760 )

He is the first of only five monarchs to reign in the Kingdom of England or its successor states for 50 years or more, the others being Edward III ( 1327 – 1377 ), George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Victoria ( 1837 – 1901 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1952 – present ).

He predeceased his father George II, however, and upon the latter's death on 25 October 1760, the throne passed to Prince Frederick's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, who reigned as King George III from 1760 until 1820.