History
1762
General
Population: 849 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social, Diederot, William Falconer, Goldoni (comedy), Tobias Smollett,
Wieland (Shakespeare translations), Edward Young (poetry), Robert Lowth (grammar), George Campbell (miracles), John Parkhurst (Hebrew/English lexicon),
Stuart and Revett write Classical Antiquities of Athens and start neoclassical movement, Pygmalion
Art includes George Stubbs "Mares and Foals"
Music includes Thomas Augustine Arne (opera), Benjamin Franklin improves harmonica – makes it a practical musical instrument, Gluck "Orpheus and Eurydice",
Mozart (age 6) tours Europe as musical prodigy
- Deaths: English dandy Richard "Beau" Nash the Master of Ceremonies at Bath, Dramatist Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, Sculptor Louis François Roubiliac,
Czarina Elizabeth Petrovna, Peter III of Russia (assassinated)
Americas
- General: British capture Martinique Grenada Havana
- Canada: First British settlement at Maugerville New Brunswick
- Cuba: Brits seize Havanna from Spain
Asia
- Burma: Tsunami
- China: Dutch establish trading post at Canton
- India: British take part of India
- Philippines: British fleet captures Manila Islands from Spain
Europe
- General: Treaty of Hamburg between Sweden and Prussia
Russo-Prussian alliance against Austria signed
Truce between Prussia Saxony and HRE
- France: Sorbonne Library in Paris opened
Petit Trianon (summer house) built by Louis XV for mistress Mme. DuBarry
- Great Britain: At Carron ironworks in Stirlingshire Scotland cast iron first converted into malleable iron
Earl of Bute new Prime Minister, but so unpopular he needs a bodyguard
Britain declares war on Spain
- Russia: Czarina Elizabeth Petrovna dau of Peter the Great
Catherine the Great marries Czar Peter III of Russia - allegiance with Frederick the Great of Prussia as she is German princess
Peter III rules but dies by assassination (Catherine killed)
Reign of empress Catherine the Great begins
Russia changes sides in 7 Years' War favoring Germany
- Spain: Tiepolo creates frescoes in Royal Palace at Madrid
Spain starts fighting on the side of France
East
- New York: First St. Patrick's Day parade
South
- South Carolina: St. Cecilia Society (music) active at Charleston