Historical Events In 1760

Jan 08   Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth.   

Jan 09   Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat.   

Jan 10   Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer.   

Jan 18   Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62.   

Jan 19   Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer   

Jan 22   Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French.   

Jan 28   Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.   

Jan 30   Franz Xaver Partsch, composer   

Feb 09   In this year, In Louisbourg Nova Scotia, Captain John Byron 1723-1786 starts tearing down the fortifications of Louisbourg on orders from British PM William Pitt   

Feb 12   Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer   

Feb 14   Francois Collin de Blamont, composer, dies at 69   

Feb 14   Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church   

Feb 15   Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer   

Feb 16   Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC   

Mar 02   Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader   

Mar 05   Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg.   

Mar 05   Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg.   

Mar 14   Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26.   

Mar 20   Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings   

Mar 27   Ishmail Spicer, composer.   

Mar 28   Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation)   

Apr 10   Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75   

Apr 12   Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer, dies at 64.   

Apr 12   Juan Manuel Olivares, composer.   

Apr 16   Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward   

May 09   Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59.   

May 10   Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)   

May 10   Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77.   

May 14   French fleet arrives in the St. Lawrence from France, but retreats to the Bay of Chaleur when it learns of the fall of Quebec   

Jun 04   Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.   

Jun 05   Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)   

Jun 10   NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine   

Jun 10   NY passes inaugural effective law regulating practice of medicine.   

Jun 14   Candido Jose Ruano, composer   

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Jan 03   In the year 1760 birth of john Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)   

Jan 10   Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer was born in the year 1760.   

Jan 19   On this day in history birth of melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer   

Jan 30   On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Partsch, composer   

Feb 12   Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer was born in the year 1760.   

Feb 14   Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church was born on this day in history.   

Feb 15   On this day in history birth of jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer   

Mar 01   François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794) was born in the year 1760.   

Jan 18   Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62 in the year 1760.   

Feb 14   Francois Collin de Blamont, composer, dies at 69 in the year 1760.   

Mar 14   Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26 on this day in history.   

Apr 10   On this day in history gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75   

Apr 12   In the year 1760 baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer, dies at 64   

Apr 16   Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward died in the year 1760.   

May 09   In the year 1760 nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59   

May 10   In the year 1760 johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77