1762
Millennium:
2nd millennium
Centuries:
17th century -
18th century -
19th century
Decades:
1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s
Years:
1759 1760 1761 -
1762 -
1763 1764 1765
1762 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology -
Architecture -
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Literature (
Poetry) -
Music -
Science
Countries: Canada -
Great Britain -
Leaders: State leaders -
Colonial governors
Category: Establishments -
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Births -
Deaths -
Works
Year 1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1762
January - June
July - December
- July 9 - Catherine II becomes empress of Russia upon the deposition of her husband Peter III. The incipient Russo-Prussian alliance falls apart, but Russia does not rejoin the war.
- July 21 - Battle of Burkersdorf: In his last major battle, Frederick defeats Marshal Daun in Silesia.
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
1762 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1762
MDCCLXII
Ab urbe condita
2515
Armenian calendar
1211
ԹՎ ՌՄԺԱ
Bahá'í calendar
-82 – -81
Berber calendar
2712
Buddhist calendar
2306
Burmese calendar
1124
Byzantine calendar
7270 – 7271
Chinese calendar
辛巳年十二月初七日
(4398/4458-12-7)
— to —
壬午年十一月十七日
(4399/4459-11-17)
Coptic calendar
1478 – 1479
Ethiopian calendar
1754 – 1755
Hebrew calendar
5522 – 5523
Hindu calendars
-
Vikram Samvat
1817 – 1818
-
Shaka Samvat
1684 – 1685
-
Kali Yuga
4863 – 4864
Holocene calendar
11762
Iranian calendar
1140 – 1141
Islamic calendar
1175 – 1176
Japanese calendar
Hōreki 12
(宝暦12年)
Korean calendar
4095
Thai solar calendar
2305
Deaths
- January 5 - Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
- January 11 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
- February 11 - Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer (b. 1690)
- February 12 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (b. 1693)
- February 20 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
- March 21 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
- May 26 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
- June 17 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
- June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
- July 13 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
- July 28 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
- August 21 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
- August 31 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (b. 1741)
- September 17 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian composer (b. 1687)
- October 6 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
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