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Year 1760 (MDCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1760
=January–June=
January 28 – Benning Wentworth creates the New Hampshire Grant of Pownal, Vermont.
February 27 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Cherokee natives allied with French forces attack a North Carolina militia stationed at Fort Dobbs in the western part of the province. The attack is repelled by the militia.
March 20 – The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
June 4 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
=July–December=
July 8 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche: British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
July 19 – A formal request is made to the Spanish government as to allow the founding of the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
July 31 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Warburg: The Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick storms Warburg, with a heroic role being played by the English commander Lord Granby.
August 30 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Legnica: By a series of brilliant maneuvers, Frederick the Great manages to defeat the Austrian army of Marshal Laudon before it can unite with that of Marshal Daun.
August 21 – The church (later cathedral) of Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
18 September – The town (later city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is founded.
October 9 – Russian troops enter Berlin, but soon withdraw.
October 16 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Kloster-Kamp: Ferdinand of Brunswick is beaten back from the Rhine by a French army.
October 25 – George II of Great Britain dies; his grandson George III ascends to the throne.
November 3 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Torgau: In another extremely hard battle Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.
=Undated=
Abu Dhabi is founded (Approximate date).
Tacky's rebellion occurs in Jamaica.
Dr. James Fordyce's two-volume compendium, Sermons for Young Women, is published.
The dockyards of Portsmouth catch fire.
Western countries pay 3,000,000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods.
Ongoing eventsFrench and Indian War (1754–1763)
Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
Births
January 3 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
March 1 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (d. 1794)
March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (d. 1828)
March 28 – Thomas Clarkson, British Abolitionist (d. 1846)
April 30 – Joseph Souham, French general (d. 1837)
May 10 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
May 28 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (d. 1794)
May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina
June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1797)
August 22 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
October 27 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
October – Fredrique Löwen, stage actress (d. 1813)
December 17 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (d. 1827)
date unknown – Louise Françoise Contat, French actress (d. 1813)
probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)
Deaths
April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
May 5 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
May 9 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
May 15 – Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
May 22 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
June 13 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
July 13 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (b. 1696)
September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
October 15 – Nicolas d'Assas, a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne (b. 1733)
October 25 – King George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
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