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1762 English cricket season: Events from the year 1762 in Great Britain. Incumbents. Monarch – George III; Prime Minister – Thomas Pelham-Holles, ...
1762 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 ...
1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 2021) [110] 1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter [111] 1940 – Willie John McBride, Northern Irish rugby player who toured with the British Lions five times [112] 1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1996 for chemistry (d. 2005 ...
1762 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711) 1781 – John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, British parliamentarian (b. 1719) 1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (b. 1713) 1805 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian soldier (b. 1756) 1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
1728 – Peter III of Russia (d. 1762) 1783 – Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1835) 1788 – Francis Ronalds, British scientist, inventor and engineer who was knighted for developing the first working electric telegraph (d. 1873) 1791 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1857)
Events [ edit ] November 3 – According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau , England is to have, with certain West Indies , Florida , Louisiana , to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans ), Canada, Acadia , Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests.
1762 – Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered. ... Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. [28] [29] 1954 – Edward Natapei, ... "Historical Events on ...
Events [ edit ] 6-year-old Mozart and his older sister Nannerl perform before Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria , in Munich and the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.