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1761
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)
by
Gorgonzola
Tue Oct 17 2000 at 1:09:54
Born in 1761:
Marie Grosholtz
, aka
Madame Tussaud
, creator of the famous
wax museum
.
Francesco Xaverio Castiglione, later Pope
Pius VIII
.
Died in 1761:
English
Mathematician
Thomas Simpson
.
English mathematician
Thomas Bayes
.
English
naturalist
, Rev.
Steven Hales
.
English
spiritualist
William Law
.
French
sculptor
François Gaspard Adam
.
Events of 1761:
Seven Years' War
:
King
George III
forces
William Pitt
to resign as Prime Minister. Britain cuts off all money to
Frederick the Great
's war effort, and Frederick is on the point of capitulation.
Spain
enters the war on the side of the French. The British capture
Belle Isle
near
Minorca
.
The British capture
Pondicherry
in
India
from the
French
.
The British defeat their last opponent in North America, the
Cherokee
Indians.
James Otis
resigns his post as
Advocate-General
of
Massachusetts
in protest against the
Writs of Assistance
, which allowed Colonial officials to search for smuggled goods anywhere they wished. In the subsequent trial, Otis delivers a stirring speech condemning the acts. A 25-year-old
John Adams
witnessed the speech, and later wrote that '
Then and there the child
independence
was born
'.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
publishes his
novel
La nouvelle Heloise
.
Composer
Franz Josef Haydn
becomes second conductor for Prince Paul Anton
Esterhazy
of
Hungary
.
Slave traders
are banned from the
Society of Friends
(even though many
Quakers
owned slaves).
at the
3rd battle of Panipat
, the Indian
Maratha
army is crushed by
Ahmad Shah Durrani
of
Afganisthan
, ending the Marathas' dominance of most of India, and creating a
power vacuum
that smoothed the way for British conquest.
The first known composition of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(five years old), his "
Andante
in C for Keyboard" (
Kochel
1a), is published.
1760
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chaos
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1760
Board of Longitude
November 7, 1917
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
Rochambeau
Edward Boscawen
Sybil Ludington
Panipat
Pondicherry
James Otis
Frederick the Great
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
John Adams
1983
Religious Society of Friends
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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