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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, 1st Duke of ...
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 ...
1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842) [31] 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1836) 1781 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (d. 1848) 1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860) [32]
5 January–12 February – Invasion of Martinique by British forces 10 March – Jean Calas, a 68 year old merchant convicted unjustly of murdering his son because of religious differences, is brutally executed on orders of the Parlement of Toulouse: after his legs and hips are broken and crushed, he is tortured on the breaking wheel (la roue) to remain "in pain and repentance for his crimes ...
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 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687) 1771 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish author and poet (b. 1721) 1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and director (b. 1766) 1808 – Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (b. 1755) 1817 – Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, French general (b. 1740)
1922 – Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist (d. 2021) [40] 1923 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (d. 1962) 1924 – Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013) 1924 – Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist, cancer researcher, and academic (d ...
1762 – Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered. ... Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. [28] [29] 1954 – Edward Natapei, ... "Historical Events on ...