Editing 1760 (section)

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Barari Ghat]]: [[Durrani Empire|Afghan forces]] defeat the [[Maratha Confederacy|Marathas]]. 
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Wandiwash]], [[India]]: British general [[Sir Eyre Coote, KB|Sir Eyre Coote]] is victorious over the [[France in the Seven Years' War|French]] under the [[Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology320">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/320 320]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/320}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Benning Wentworth]] creates the New Hampshire Grant of [[Pownal, Vermont]].
* [[February 15]] &ndash; The British [[Royal Navy]] ship [[HMS Royal Katherine (1664)|HMS ''Royal Katherine'']] runs aground off [[Bolt Head]] in [[England]], with the loss of 699 lives.
* [[February 21]]&ndash;[[February 26|26]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Carrickfergus (1760)|Battle of Carrickfergus]] in the north of [[Ireland]] &ndash; A force of French troops, under the command of [[privateer]] [[François Thurot]], captures and holds the town and castle of [[Carrickfergus]] before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in a naval action in the [[Irish Sea]], on [[February 28]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Nicholas Rodger|last=Rodger|first=N. A. M.|title=The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815|location=London|publisher=Penguin Books; [[National Maritime Museum]]|year=2006|isbn=0-14-102690-1|page=283}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[French and Indian War]] & [[Anglo-Cherokee War]] &ndash; [[Cherokee]] natives attack a [[Royal Colony of North Carolina|North Carolina]] militia stationed at [[Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)|Fort Dobbs]], in the western part of the province. The attack is repelled by the militia, under the command of [[Hugh Waddell (general)|General Hugh Waddell]].
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The [[Great Boston Fire of 1760|Great Fire]] of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], destroys 349 buildings and marks the biggest conflagration in the American colonies up to this time.<ref> "Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p54</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and [[Prussia]] agree to begin peace negotiations to end the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref>[[Basil Williams (historian)|Basil Williams]], ''The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2'' (Frank Cass & Co., 1913, reprinted by Routledge, 2014) p80</ref>
* [[April 7]] &ndash; '[[Tacky's War]]', a [[slave rebellion]], begins in [[Colony of Jamaica|Jamaica]] and lasts for 18 months. During the uprising, 60 white residents are killed and more than 400 black rebels die in the suppression of the revolt. Another 500 are deported to British Honduras.<ref>Candace Ward, ''Desire and Disorder: Fevers, Fictions, and Feeling in English Georgian Culture'' (Bucknell University Press, 2007) p179</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[France]]'s Minister of the Navy [[Nicolas René Berryer]] finally receives permission to send ships to assist French forces at Quebec, and a fleet of six ships under the command of Captain François Chenard de la Giraudais of the {{ship|French frigate|Machault|1757|6}} departs [[Bordeaux]], albeit too late to prevent the loss of New France to the British.<ref name=Machault>"Machault", in ''Warships of the World to 1900'', ed. by Lincoln P. Paine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000) pp99-100</ref>
* [[April 11]] &ndash; The Burmese Army, under the command of King [[Alaungpaya]], reaches the outskirts of [[Thailand|Siam]]'s capital, [[Ayutthaya (city)|Ayutthaya]], but then retreats rather than laying siege to the city.<ref name=Topich> William J. Topich and Keith A. Leitich, ''The History of Myanmar'' (ABC-CLIO, 2013) pp38-39</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; Two of six French ships run into a British blockade led by Britain's Admiral [[Edward Boscawen]]. Of the remaining four, one sinks before it can reach North America.<ref name=Machault/>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; France's Marshal [[François Gaston de Lévis]] departs from [[Montreal]] up the [[St. Lawrence River]] with 7,000 troops on a plan to retake [[Quebec City]] from the British.<ref name=Williams> Paul Williams, ''Frontier Forts Under Fire: The Attacks on Fort William Henry (1757) and Fort Phil Kearny (1866)'' (McFarland, 2017) p101</ref>
* [[April 22]] &ndash; Belgian entertainer Joseph Mervin is said to have given the first demonstration of [[roller skates]], in a performance at the Carlisle House in London, but the stunt ends in disaster.<ref>William Hartston, ''The Encyclopedia of Useless Information'' (Sourcebooks, 2007)</ref>
* [[April 26]] &ndash; Marshal Lévis and his troops land at [[Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures]], adjacent to [[Quebec City]], and prepares to lay siege to the British occupying force.<ref name=Williams/>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; British Army Brigadier General [[James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721)|James Murray]] marches a force of 3,500 men toward Saint-Augustin to confront Marshal Lévis and the French Army.<ref name=Williams/>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; British defenders and the French Army clash at the [[Battle of Sainte-Foy]] to determine the future control of [[Quebec]]. General Murray is forced to retreat after the British suffer 259 deaths and 845 wounded, while the French under Marshal Lévis suffer 193 deaths and 640 wounded.<ref>Raymond B. Blake, et al., ''Conflict and Compromise: Pre-Confederation Canada'' (University of Toronto Press, 2012) p104</ref>
* [[April 29]] &ndash; Representatives of the remaining Penobscot Indian tribes in Maine and New Brunswick make peace with the British at [[Fort Point, Newfoundland and Labrador|Fort Pownal]] in Newfoundland.<ref name="Federal"> Federal Writers Project, ''Maine: A Guide 'Down East'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1937) p37</ref> 
* [[April 30]] &ndash; Swiss mathematician [[Daniel Bernoulli]] presents a paper at the [[French Academy of Sciences]] in [[Paris]] in which "a mathematical model was used for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease."<ref>Charles Roberts, ''Ordinary Differential Equations: Applications, Models, and Computing'' (CRC Press, 2011) pp139-140</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; King Alaungpaya of Burma dies during a retreat from Ayutthaya after stopping at the village of Kinywa while en route to [[Martaban]].  His son [[Naungdawgyi]] becomes the new [[King of Burma]].<ref name=Topich/>
* [[May 16]] &ndash; Three British Royal Navy ships under the command of Commodore [[Robert Swanton]] on {{HMS|Vanguard|1748|6}} arrive to break the [[Siege of Quebec (1760)|siege of Quebec]] before Marshal Lévis can recapture the city from the British.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; Captain Giraudais's French fleet reaches the [[Gaspé Peninsula]] of northeast Quebec and captures seven British merchant ships, but Giraudais learns that the British have already preceded him up the St. Lawrence River and diverts to [[Chaleur Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)|Chaleur Bay]] at [[Newfoundland]].<ref name=Machault/>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Expulsion of the Acadians]]: [[New England]] planters arrive to claim land in [[Nova Scotia]] taken from the [[Acadians]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Robert Rogers (soldier)|Robert Rogers]] and his [[Rogers' Rangers|Rangers]] launch a strike from [[Lake Champlain]] against French military posts along the [[Richelieu River]] – they [[Sainte-Thérèse Raid|strike]] at [[Fort Sainte Thérèse]] and destroy the settlement.
* [[June 19]] &ndash; The British create [[Cumberland County, Maine|Cumberland County]] and [[Lincoln County, Maine|Lincoln County]] in [[Maine]].<ref name="Federal"/> 
* [[June 22]] &ndash; Britain's Captain [[John Byron]], commanding HMS ''Fame'', locates France's Captain Giraudais but runs aground on June 25 before it can attack.<ref name=Machault/>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 3]] &ndash; A [[lightning strike]] causes a major fire at [[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]] in [[England]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Portsmouth Dockyard|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/portsmouth_dockyard.htm|work=Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk|access-date=2011-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chronology Of Events In Portsmouth &ndash; 1700-1799|url=http://www.history.inportsmouth.co.uk/events/chronology-4.htm|work=History In Portsmouth|access-date=2011-09-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822183623/http://www.history.inportsmouth.co.uk/events/chronology-4.htm|archive-date=August 22, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[French and Indian War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Restigouche]]: The British defeat French forces, in the last naval battle in [[New France]].
* [[July 19]] &ndash; A formal request is made to the Spanish government, to allow the founding of the later city of [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico]].
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Warburg]] &ndash; The Anglo-Hanoverian army of [[Ferdinand of Brunswick]] storms [[Warburg]], with a heroic role being played by the English commander [[John Manners, Marquess of Granby|Lord Granby]].
* [[August 21]] &ndash; The church (later [[cathedral]]) of Our Lady of [[Candlemas]] of [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico|Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)]] is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city in the following month.
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Liegnitz (1760)|Battle of Legnica]] &ndash; By a series of brilliant maneuvers, [[Frederick the Great]] manages to defeat the Austrian army of Marshal [[Ernst Gideon von Laudon|Laudon]] before it can unite with that of Marshal Daun.
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Jeffery Amherst]] and his British troops [[Montreal Campaign|capture Montreal]] from the French, effectively bringing [[Canada]] completely under British control.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|page=222|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] &ndash; The town (later city) of [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico]], is founded.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; The wedding of [[Princess Isabella of Parma]] and [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Prince Joseph of Austria]] takes place at [[Hofburg Palace]]'s Redoute Hall (Redoutensaele), at the former imperial palace in Vienna.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/wedding-supper/8wGaVfLW0exl6A|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306044609/http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/wedding-supper/8wGaVfLW0exl6A|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 6, 2014|title=wedding-supper|access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Russian Empire|Russian]] troops enter [[Berlin]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Kloster Kampen|Battle of Kloster-Kamp]] &ndash; Ferdinand of Brunswick is beaten back from the [[Rhine]] by a French army.
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[George II of Great Britain]] and Ireland dies; his 22-year-old grandson George, Prince of Wales, succeeds to the throne as [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] and reigns for 59 years until his death on January 29, [[1820]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Torgau]] &ndash; In another extremely hard battle, Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the [[Elbe river|Elbe]].
* [[November 29]] &ndash; French Army Colonel [[François-Marie Picoté de Belestre]] formally surrenders [[Detroit]] to British Army Major [[Robert Rogers (British Army officer)|Robert Rogers]], and the British Union Jack is raised over Fort Detroit.<ref>Bill Loomis, ''On This Day in Detroit History'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2016) p188</ref>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; For the first time since the surrender of [[Fort Detroit]] by France, British authorities meet nearby at a Native American council house with delegates from various Indian tribes that had fought as allies of the French Army, such as the Wyandot and Ottawa Indians, and with tribes that had formerly been allies of the British.  The European and Native American representatives open the peace conference with the presentation by the Indians to the British of a [[wampum belt]], and the pronouncement from the principal chief that "The ancient friendship is now renewed, and I wash the blood off the earth that had been shed during the present war, that you may [[Burying the hatchet|bury the war hatchet]] in the bottomless pit."<ref>"1763 in Native American Country", by Ulrike Kirchberger, in Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building and International Relations from the Seven Years War to the Cold War", ed. by Ute Planert and James Retallack (Cambridge University Press, 2017) p72</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; The siege of [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]], a stronghold of France in India, is begun by British Army Lieutenant General [[Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)|Eyre Coote]]. The French commander, General [[Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally|Thomas Lally]], is finally forced to surrender Pondicherry to the British on January 15, 1761.<ref>"Carnatic Wars", in ''Wars That Changed History: 50 of the World's Greatest Conflicts'', ed. by Spencer C. Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2015) p222</ref>  
* [[December 18]] &ndash; In the wake of [[Tacky's War]] by African-born rebels, the Assembly of the British colony of [[Jamaica]] outlaws the African religious practice of ''[[obeah]]'', with penalties ranging from banishment from the colony to execution.  The legislation specifically bans use of contraband associated with ''obeah'', including "animal blood, feathers, parrots' beaks, dogs' teeth, alligators' teeth, broken bottles, grave dirt, rum, and eggshells".<ref>Rebecca Shumway, Trevor R. Getz, ''Slavery and its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora'' (Bloomsbury, 2017) p76</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* Abbé [[Charles-Michel de l'Épée]] opens a school for [[deaf education]] in Paris which becomes the [[Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris]], the world's first free school for the deaf; [[Thomas Braidwood]] establishes Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb in [[Edinburgh]], the first school for the deaf in Britain.
* Western countries pay 3,000,000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods.
* ''approximate date'' &ndash; [[Abu Dhabi]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://adwonline.ae/the-story-of-abu-dhabi/|title= The story of Abu Dhabi |access-date=July 21, 2020 }}</ref>