1762

This article is about the year 1762.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s  1740s  1750s  – 1760s –  1770s  1780s  1790s
Years:	1759 1760 1761 – 1762 – 1763 1764 1765

1762 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1762 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1762 MDCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2515
Armenian calendar	1211 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6512
Bengali calendar	1169
Berber calendar	2712
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 3 – 3 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2306
Burmese calendar	1124
Byzantine calendar	7270–7271
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4458 or 4398     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4459 or 4399
Coptic calendar	1478–1479
Discordian calendar	2928
Ethiopian calendar	1754–1755
Hebrew calendar	5522–5523
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1818–1819
- Shaka Samvat	1684–1685
- Kali Yuga	4863–4864
Holocene calendar	11762
Igbo calendar	762–763
Iranian calendar	1140–1141
Islamic calendar	1175–1176
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 12 (宝暦１２年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4095
Minguo calendar	150 before ROC 民前150年
Thai solar calendar	2304–2305

1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1762nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 762nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1760s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1762 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 4 – Britain enters the Seven Years' War against Spain and Naples.
• January 5 – Empress Elisabeth of Russia dies and is succeeded by her nephew Peter III. Peter, an admirer of Frederick the Great, immediately opens peace negotiations with the Prussians.
• February 5 – The Great Holocaust of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, around 30,000 men, women and children perish in this campaign of slaughter.
• May 15 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) ends the war between Russia and Prussia.
• May 22 – The Treaty of Hamburg takes Sweden out of the war against Prussia.
• June 24 – Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander Lord Granby distinguishes himself.

July–December

• July 9 – Catherine II becomes empress of Russia upon the deposition of her husband Peter III. The incipient Russo-Prussian alliance falls apart, but Russia does not rejoin the war.
• July 21 – Battle of Burkersdorf: In his last major battle, Frederick defeats Marshal Daun in Silesia.

October 5: British East India Company seizes Manila.

• August 13 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Havana concludes after more than two months with the surrender of Havana by Spain to Great Britain.
• September – Empress Go-Sakuramachi succeeds her brother Emperor Momozono on the throne of Japan.
• September 15 – Battle of Signal Hill: British troops defeat the French.
• September 24–October 5 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.
• October 29 – Battle of Freiberg: Prince Henry of Prussia, Frederick's brother, defeats the Austrian army of Marshal Serbelloni.
• November 13 – Treaty of Fontainebleau, a secret agreement in which Louis XV of France cedes Louisiana (New France) to Charles III of Spain.

Date unknown

• Louis XV orders the construction of the Petit Trianon, in the park of the Palace of Versailles, for his mistress Madame de Pompadour.
• Neolin, a Delaware tribe prophet, begins to preach in America.
• The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Kingston, named for King George III of the United Kingdom, as the county seat of Dobbs County, North Carolina. The name is later shortened to Kinston in 1784.
• The town of Charlottesville, Virginia, is founded.
• Building of the Plymouth Synagogue in Plymouth, England, the oldest built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English-speaking world.
• French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes his famous books, The Social Contract and Émile, or On Education
• James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's architectural treatise Antiquities of Athens.

Births

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

• April 29 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
• May 19 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
• August 12 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
• September 11 – Joanna Baillie, Scottish writer (d. 1851)
• October 1 – Anton Bernolák, Slovak linguist (d. 1813)
• October 12 – Jan Willem Janssens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1838)
• October 21 – Herman Willem Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1818)
• October 23 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
• October 30 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
• November 1 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)

Deaths

• January 5 – Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
• January 11 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
• February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer (b. 1690)
• February 12 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (b. 1693)
• February 20 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
• March 21 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
• May 26 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
• June 17
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
  • Emperor Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
• June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
• July 13 – James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
• July 28 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
• August 20 – Shah Waliullah, Islamic reformer (b. 1703)
• August 21 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
• August 31 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (b. 1741)
• September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian composer (b. 1687)
• October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)