1763

1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday 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. As of the start of 1762, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1763 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1763
MDCCLXIII
Ab urbe condita2516
Armenian calendar1212
ԹՎ ՌՄԺԲ
Assyrian calendar6513
Balinese saka calendar1684–1685
Bengali calendar1170
Berber calendar2713
British Regnal year3 Geo. 3  4 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2307
Burmese calendar1125
Byzantine calendar7271–7272
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
4459 or 4399
     to 
癸未年 (Water Goat)
4460 or 4400
Coptic calendar1479–1480
Discordian calendar2929
Ethiopian calendar1755–1756
Hebrew calendar5523–5524
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1819–1820
 - Shaka Samvat1684–1685
 - Kali Yuga4863–4864
Holocene calendar11763
Igbo calendar763–764
Iranian calendar1141–1142
Islamic calendar1176–1177
Japanese calendarHōreki 13
(宝暦13年)
Javanese calendar1688–1689
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4096
Minguo calendar149 before ROC
民前149年
Nanakshahi calendar295
Thai solar calendar2305–2306
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1889 or 1508 or 736
     to 
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1890 or 1509 or 737

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 6 The Théâtre du Palais-Royal, home to the Paris Opera for almost 90 years, is destroyed in an accidental fire.[2]
  • April 16 George Grenville takes office as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain, after the Earl of Bute resigns amid criticism over Britain's concessions in the Treaty of Paris.[3]
  • April 18 Marie-Josephte Corriveau is hanged near her home at Saint-Vallier, Quebec, then placed on public display (gibbeting) on orders of a British court of officers that had tried her under martial law for the murder of her husband.[4] She becomes famous in French Quebecois folklore as "la Corriveau".
  • April 19 Teedyuscung, known as the "King of the Delaware Indians" (the Lenape tribe) is assassinated by arsonists who burn down his home in Pennsylvania while he is sleeping, in an apparent retaliation for signing the Treaty of Easton to relinquish Lenape claims to the Province of New Jersey.[5]
  • April 23 The controversial Issue 45 of John Wilkes's satirical newspaper The North Briton is published as a response to a speech four days earlier by King George III praising the end of the Seven Years' War.[6] In what will become a test case for freedom of speech, Wilkes, a member of Parliament, is arrested for libel of the King and imprisoned, then exiled to France.
  • April 27 Outraged by the British success in taking control of land in North America formerly occupied by the French, Pontiac, chief of the Odawa people, convenes a conference near Detroit and convinces the leaders of 17 other nations of the need to attack British outposts.[7]
  • May 7 Chief Pontiac begins "Pontiac's War" by attacking the British garrison at Fort Detroit, but the surprise attack is given away by a young native girl who informs the British of the plan.[7] Two days later he begins the Siege of Fort Detroit.
  • June 2 Pontiac's War: At what becomes Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
  • June 28 A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shakes Hungary and Slovakia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Damage is limited, but 83 are killed.[8]

JulySeptember

  • July 7 The British East India Company declares Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, to be deposed.[9]
  • July 9 – The Mozart family grand tour of Europe began, lifting the profile of prodigal son Wolfgang Amadeus.[10]
  • August 2 Mir Qasim is routed at Odwa Nala.[9] He flees to Patna, where he massacres the English garrison, but is subsequently defeated at Katwa, Murshidabad, Giria, Sooty, Udayanala and Munger.
  • August 3 and 4 The spectacular bankruptcies of Leendert Pieter de Neufville and Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky lead to a financial contagion and affected in the days after many merchants in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Stockholm.
  • August 5 Pontiac's War Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run, in the Pennsylvania backcountry.
  • August Fire in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, destroys 2,600 houses.
  • September 1 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.

OctoberDecember

Date unknown

Births

  • January 8 Edmond-Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (d. 1834)
  • January 8 Jean-Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary politician
  • January 24 Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)

Date unknown:

  • Huang Peilie, Chinese bibliophile (d. 1825)[12]

Deaths

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

References

  1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. Pannill Camp, The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p148
  3. Richard Archer, As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2010) p1
  4. F. Murray Greenwood and Beverley Boissery, Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953 (Dundurn, 2000) p54
  5. Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2011) p116
  6. Amelia Rauser, Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-century English Prints (University of Delaware Press, 2008) p51
  7. Walter S. Dunn, People of the American Frontier: The Coming of the American Revolution (Greenwood, 2005) p37
  8. National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) (1972), Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
  9. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 322. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  10. Sadie, Stanley (2006). Mozart: The Early Years, 17561781. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 37. ISBN 0-393-06112-4.
  11. "A Letter from the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S." (PDF). November 24, 1763. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  12. "Supplement to the Local Gazetteer of Wu Prefecture". World Digital Library. 1134. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
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