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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1760. 1760 (MDCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday...
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    English speakers in the majority. The eastern part was named Lower Canada. In 1760, following the capitulation of Montreal, the colony was placed under military...
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  • 1760s BC (redirect from 1760 BC)
    The 1760s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1769 BC to December 31, 1760 BC. 1766 BC: The Shang dynasty in China conquers the Xia dynasty. Hammurabi...
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    Stanisław Potocki (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈtɔt͡skʲi]; died 1760) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic). Potocki was Grand Guard of the Crown from 1728, voivode...
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    with the British–American victory in the Ohio Country. Between 1758 and 1760, the British military launched a campaign to capture French Canada. They...
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    Events from the year 1760 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II (died October 25), George III (starting October 25)...
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    12 11 10 9 8 Prague 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Liegnitz on 15 August 1760 saw Frederick the Great's Prussian Army defeat the Austrian army under Ernst...
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    Timeline of the American Revolution—timeline of the political upheaval culminating in the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies in North America joined...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1760. January – Oliver Goldsmith's series of fictionalised "letters from a Chinese...
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    Sebastian Bach (born 1701) March 2 – François Bouvard, French composer (born 1760) March 14 – Anton Fils, German composer (born 1733) April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb...
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    Constitutional Act (1791). 1760: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Sainte-Foy on the Plains of Abraham on April 26. 1760: French forces lay siege...
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  • MIL-STD-1760 Aircraft/Store Electrical Interconnection System defines a standardized electrical interface between a military aircraft and its carriage...
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    1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and...
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    Bellona was built at Chatham, starting on 10 May 1758, launched on 19 February 1760, and commissioned three days later. She was the second ship of the Royal...
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    The Battle of Landeshut was an engagement fought on 23 June 1760 during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War). A Prussian army of 12,000...
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    1760s (redirect from 1760-1769)
    "seventeen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1760, and ended on December 31, 1769. Marked by great upheavals on culture, technology...
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    John Breckinridge (December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806) was an American lawyer, slave-owning planter, soldier, and politician in Virginia and Kentucky...
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    Great Britain (1714–1727) George II of Great Britain (1727–1760) George III Great Britain (1760–1800) George III continued as King of the United Kingdom...
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  • The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events. Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt investigates inks based on cobalt salts and...
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    ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763. Britain's acquisition of Canada became official with the 1763 Treaty...
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  • published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760. It is likely that the Chronicle was published for the sole purpose of including...
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    Joseph Ellicott (November 1, 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania – August 19, 1826 in New York City) was an American surveyor, city planner, land office...
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  • 1760 Sandra, provisional designation 1950 GB, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 35 kilometers in diameter...
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    awaiting the results. This regime would last from 1760 to 1763. Seeing French and Indian defeat, in 1760, the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy resigned...
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  • Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure...
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    Lady Elizabeth Mary Finch-Hatton (née Murray; 18 May 1760 – 1 June 1825) was a British aristocrat and the subject of a notable painting, once thought to...
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    John Greenwood (May 17, 1760 – November 16, 1819) was an American fifer and dentist, serving as George Washington's personal dentist. He was responsible...
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    Z Canis Majoris (redirect from BD-11 1760)
    Temperature 8,250±183 K Age 0.06±0.03 Myr Other designations Z CMa, BD−11 1760, HD 53179, HIP 34042, PPM 218073, SAO 152302 Database references SIMBAD data...
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  • The Capture of Delhi, fought in 1760, pitted the forces of the Maratha Empire against those of the Durrani Empire led by Yakub Ali Khan. The Maratha army...
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  • Events from the year 1760 in Wales. Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire)...
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