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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 English cricket season: Events from the year 1762 in Great Britain. Incumbents. Monarch – George III; Prime Minister – Thomas Pelham-Holles, ...
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.
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 ...
The Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed after thirty years of work, with Nicola Salvi's design being modified by Giovanni Paolo Panini.; The equestrian statue of King Louis XV of France in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, is completed after around a dozen years, with Edmé Bouchardon's design being finished by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle; however, it will be destroyed during the French Revolution.
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.
April 21 – Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule as the result of a secret agreement of November 13, 1762 whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River. [72] The Spanish, however, do not take possession until August 17, 1769.
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