Born in 1763:

• German novelist Jean Paul.
• French painter Georges Michel.
• Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa.
• German composer Franz Danzi.
• Scottish-born American geologist William Maclure.
• Polish statesman (and later Napoleeonic marshal)  Jozef Poniatowski (in Vienna).
• Napoleonic marshal Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, later king Karl Johan of Norway and Sweden.
• Joséphine de Beauharnais, later consort of Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Canadian brewer John Molson.
• Future king João VI of Portugal and Brazil.
• American fur trader and millionaire John Jacob Astor.

Died in 1763:

• English poet William Shenstone.
• Chinese novelist Cao Xueqin¹.
• Lenni-Lenapi (aka Delaware) chief Teedyuscung.

Events of 1763:

• The Treaty of Paris officially ends the Seven Years' War, called the French and Indian War in North America.  In the treaty,
• France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
• France cedes Louisiana (except for New Orleans to Spain.
• Spain cedes Florida to Great Britain.
• Britain keeps Grenada but returns Havana to Spain and the other Carribean islands back to France.
• France keeps the tiny islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland.
• The Indians in the vicinity of the Great Lakes rise in revolt against the British. The Ottawa indians, under chief Pontiac, along with Chippewa, Hurons, and Potawatomis, lay siege to Fort Detroit starting in July.  They are unable to take the fort and leave in November.
• George III issues a proclamation:
• Organizing the territories of Quebec, West Florida, East Florida, and Grenada.
• Instructing colonial govermnents to make grants of land to newly mustered-out soldiers.
• Prohibiting the colonists from settling west of the Appalachians outside the newly organized territories, reserving the remaining teritory east of the Mississippi River to the Indians.  Anyone already settled in this area was required to return East. This last provision was another major step on the road to the American Revolution.
• Catherine the Great of Russia issues a proclamation permitting foreigners to settle in Russia, and allowing them to practice their own religion, but not permitting them to attempt to convert anyone.
• Touro Synagogue, the first synagogue in North America, is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
• The first Filipinos in America settle in Louisiana after escaping from Spanish ships in New Orleans.

¹Thanks to mauler for this suggestion.

1762 - 1763 - 1764

How they Were Made - 18th Century