History
1761
General
Population: 847 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Charles Churchill, George Colman (comedy), Rousseau, Benjamin Victor (theater history), Henry Home (logic),
Voltaire's works published in English
Art includes Boucher "Girl and Birdcatcher"
Music includes Thomas Augustine Arne (oratorio), Gluck "Don Juan", Haydn appointed Kapellmeister to Prince Paul Esterhazy, Mozart, age 5, begins composing
- Medicine: Leopold Acenbrygger writes about recognizing chest compressions by percussion
B.G. Morgagni begins pathological anatomy
- Science: Benjamin Banneker predicts eclipse of 1789
Mikhail Lomonosov discovers atmosphere of Venus
Johann Peter Sussmilch starts study of statistics
- Technology: Benjamin Banneker (African American) Constructs first wooden clock
- Deaths: Novelist Samuel Richardson, Optician John Dollond
Americas
Asia
- India: End of Mogul dynasty in Delhi
French sites in India fall to English rule - Capture of Pondicherry
- Japan: Ieharu named new Shogun
Europe
- General: Seven Years' War continues
- France: First French veterinary school founded at Lyons
- Great Britain: Bridgewater canal finished (see 1758)
Society of Arts in London opens exhibit of agricultural machines
- Holy Roman Empire: Austrians take Schweidnitz
- Italian States: Anton Raphael Mengs plans Villa Albani in Rome
- Russia: End of reign of Elizabeth I
- Spain: Spain joins with France in Seven Years' War
Middle East
- General: Danish expedition to explore Arabia under Castens Niebuhr
- Afghanistan: Battle of Panipat between the Marathas and Ahmad Shah Durrani – great Afghan victory
General
East
- General: First regular stagecoach service begins between Boston and Portsmouth NH
- Rhode Island: Peter Harrison makes Brick Market in Newport
- Washington DC: Benjamin Banneker (African American) issues almanac and blueprints D.C.