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1761 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1761
MDCCLXI
Ab urbe condita2514
Armenian calendar1210
ԹՎ ՌՄԺ
Assyrian calendar6511
Balinese saka calendar1682–1683
Bengali calendar1168
Berber calendar2711
British Regnal year1 Geo. 3 – 2 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2305
Burmese calendar1123
Byzantine calendar7269–7270
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4457 or 4397
    — to —
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4458 or 4398
Coptic calendar1477–1478
Discordian calendar2927
Ethiopian calendar1753–1754
Hebrew calendar5521–5522
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1817–1818
 - Shaka Samvat1682–1683
 - Kali Yuga4861–4862
Holocene calendar11761
Igbo calendar761–762
Iranian calendar1139–1140
Islamic calendar1174–1175
Japanese calendarHōreki 11
(宝暦１１年)
Javanese calendar1686–1687
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4094
Minguo calendar151 before ROC
民前151年
Nanakshahi calendar293
Thai solar calendar2303–2304
Tibetan calendar阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1887 or 1506 or 734
    — to —
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1888 or 1507 or 735
Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition defeat the Maratha Confederacy.

1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1761st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 761st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1761, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 1 – The Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire sign a new treaty of alliance. [3]
  • April 4 – A severe epidemic of influenza breaks out in London and "practically the entire population of the city" is afflicted; particularly contagious to pregnant women, the disease causes an unusual number of miscarriages and premature births. [4]
  • April 14 – Thomas Boone is transferred south to become the Royal Governor of South Carolina after proving to be unable to work with the local assembly as the Royal Governor of New Jersey. [5]
  • May 4 – The first multiple death tornado in the 13 American colonies strikes Charleston, South Carolina, killing eight people and sinking five ships in harbor. [6]
  • June 6 – (May 26 old style); A transit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth. In his observations by telescope at St. Petersburg, Mikhail Lomonosov notes a ring of light around the planet's silhouette as it begins the transit, and becomes the first astronomer to discover that the planet Venus has an atmosphere. [7]

July–September[]

  • July 17 – The first section of the Bridgewater Canal is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to Manchester.[8]
  • August 6 – The Parliament of Paris votes to close all colleges, associations and seminaries associated with the Jesuit Order, following a long campaign by Louis-Adrien Le Paige. [9]
  • August 11 – Two years after his marriage to Martha Custis and his move to Mount Vernon, retired British Army General George Washington advertises a reward in the Maryland Gazette for the capture of four fugitive slaves, named Cupid, Peros, Jack, and Neptune, averring that they had escaped "without the least suspicion, provocation, or difference with anybody". [10]
  • August 15 – The Third Family Compact is executed by King Charles III of Spain and King Louis XV of France, as well as representatives of members of the House of Bourbon, King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Philip, Duke of Parma. [11]
  • August 29 – Cherokee leader Attakullakulla and British Army Major James Grant meet at Fort Prince George in South Carolina and begin negotiations to end the Anglo-Cherokee War. [12] [13]
  • September 8 – King George III of Great Britain marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen Charlotte).
  • September 19 – The slave trade to and within Portugal is forbidden.
  • September 22 – King George III and Queen Charlotte are crowned.

October–December[]

  • October 1 – Austrian Field Marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon captures the Prussian town of Schweidnitz (now Świdnica in Poland) during the Seven Years' War. [14]
  • October 5 – William Pitt is dismissed from his position as Secretary of State for the Southern Department (which administers Britain's American colonies) after having been a powerful part of a coalition government with the Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle. King George III, who had ascended the throne a year earlier, despises both men and takes the action two weeks after his formal coronation.
  • October 30 – British Army Colonel Henry Bouquet issues the first proclamation against British settlement on Indian lands in America. [15]
  • November 7 – The New London Harbor Light is first lit to guide ships into the Connecticut harbor; the lighthouse, only the fourth to be built has been in continuous operation for more than 250 years.
  • November 11 – The Earl of Egremont, Great Britain's Secretary of State for the Southern Department (which includes all of the American colonies), proclaims a policy against issuing any land grants in territory occupied by the American Indian tribes. [15]
  • November 19 – A separate peace treaty is signed between the Cherokee Indians and the Colony of Virginia, bringing the Anglo-Cherokee War to a close. [16]
  • November 26 – A 500-man force from the Army of Spain brings the revolt of Mexico's Maya population to an end, capturing the Yucatan village of Cisteil, killing about 500 of the 2,500 Mayan defenders and losing 40 of their own. [17] The Spaniards arrest 254 people, including Jacinto Canek, who had proclaimed himself as King Canek Montezuma of the Mayas. Canek and eight other rebellion leaders are executed less than three weeks later.
  • December 16 – Seven Years' War: After four months of siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolberg.

Date unknown[]

Marine chronometer
  • The Halifax Treaties are concluded between the various bands of the Miꞌkmaq, other First Nations people and the British in Halifax, Nova Scotia, notably in the Burying the Hatchet ceremony on June 25.
  • In Dutch Guyana, a "state" formed by escaped slaves signs a treaty with the local governor.
  • Marine chronometer invented as a means to accurately determine longitude.
  • Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory opens in the midlands of England.
  • The music for "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" ("Ah, would I tell you Mom?") is first published in France by a Monsieur Bouin in his book Les Amusements d'une Heure et Demy; in 1806, English poet Jane Taylor publishes her poem, The Star, whose words fit the rhythm of the tune and become the children's song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.[18]
  • Faber-Castell Company is founded by Kasper Faber in Nuremberg, Germany.
  • Johann Heinrich Lambert finds a proof that π is irrational.
  • l'Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers is founded.

Births[]

John Rennie the Elder
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
  • December 27 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (d. 1818)
  • Date unknown – Dido Elizabeth Belle, British slave heiress (d. 1804)

Deaths[]

Edward Boscawen

References[]

  1. ^ "Historical Events for Year 1761 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  2. ^ "Landmarks of World History: A Chronology of Remarkable Natural Phenomena: Eighteenth Century 1761-1770". The Gallery of Natural Phenomena. 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Herbert J. Redman, Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763 (McFarland, 2015) p422
  4. ^ "Relation of Influenza to Pregnancy and Labor", by Dr. P. Brooke Bland, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (February 1919) pp185-186
  5. ^ "Thomas Boone", by Larry R. Gerlach, in The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays, ed. by Michael J. Birkner, et al. (Rutgers University Press, 2014) p87
  6. ^ T. P. Grazulis, The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003) p217
  7. ^ Govert Schilling, Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries (Springer, 2011) p41
  8. ^ BBC History, July 2011, p 12
  9. ^ David A. Bell, Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France (Oxford University Press, 1994) p129
  10. ^ Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (Penguin, 2010)
  11. ^ William R. Nester, The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775 (Greenwood, 2000) p213
  12. ^ William R. Reynolds, Jr., The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries (McFarland, 2015) p96
  13. ^ Stan Hoig, The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire (University of Arkansas Press, 1998) p43
  14. ^ Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (University of California Press, 1993) p304
  15. ^ a b Alfred P. James, The Ohio Company: Its Inner History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959) p118
  16. ^ "Cherokee War", by John C. Frederiksen, in The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. by Spencer Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2011) p157
  17. ^ Micheal Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (McFarland, 2017) p139
  18. ^ Stokes, Richard (2016). The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden. Penguin. p. xiiv.
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