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The 1760s (pronounced "seventeen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1760, and ended on December 31, 1769.

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From top left, clockwise: English Explorer James Cook commenced his first voyage around the world, becoming the first known Europeans to reach the east coast of Australia; victory at the Battle of Buxar and subsequent Treaty of Allahabad marked start of the political and constitutional involvement East India Company and the beginning of British rule in India; the Dutch ship, the Meermin is taken over by the slaves it was transporting in the Meermin slave mutiny; George III is crowned king of the United Kingdom and would go on to reign longer than any of his predecessors; French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" — effectively the world's first automobile; the Stamp Act is passed by the British parliament, required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. The unpopularity of the Stamp Act, and other such taxes levied by the parliament would contribute to the start of the American revolution; Leopold Mozart and his family toured Europe allowing their children to experience the full the cosmopolitan musical world which, in Wolfgang's case, would continue through further journeys in the following six years, prior to his appointment by the Prince-Archbishop as a court musician; the signing of the Treaty of Paris formally ended the Seven Years' War and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.

Marked by great upheavals on culture, technology, and diplomacy, the 1760s was a transitional decade that effectively brought on the modern era from Baroqueism. The Seven Years' War – arguably the most widespread conflict of its time – carried trends of imperialism outside of European reaches, where it would head on to countless territories (mainly in Asia and Africa) for decades to come under colonialism.

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Births

1760

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Jiaqing Emperor

1761

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John Rennie the Elder
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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

1762

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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George IV of the United Kingdom
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Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister assassinated in 1812.

1763

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Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
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Empress Joséphine

1764

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Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy
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Princess Élisabeth of France

1765

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Nicéphore Niépce
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William IV of the United Kingdom
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Robert Fulton

1766

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William Hyde Wollaston
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John Dalton

1767

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Andrew Jackson
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John Quincy Adams

1768

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Maria Edgeworth
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Joseph Bonaparte
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Caroline of Brunswick

1769

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Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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Napoleon
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Deaths

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George II of Great Britain

1761

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Edward Boscawen

1762

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Elizabeth of Russia
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Peter III of Russia, nephew of Elizabeth.

1763

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John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

1764

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Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti
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Tsar Ivan VI of Russia
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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

1765

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Mikhail Lomonosov

1766

1767

1768

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Canaletto
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

1769

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Pope Clement XIII
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Prince Constantine Mavrocordatos
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Joseph Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
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