Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1762. 1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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English: Mary Theresa Elisabeth Philippine Louise Josepha Joan; 20 March 1762 – 23 January 1770) was a daughter of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his...
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Vadda Ghalughara (redirect from The Second Sikh Holocaust (1762))
subcontinent owing to the repeated incursions of Ahmad Shah Durrani in February 1762. It is distinguished from the Chhota Ghalughara (the Smaller Massacre). Mostly...
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was later called the Seven Years' War. British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764, however they were unable to extend their conquest outside of Manila...
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Catherine the Great (section Reign (1762–1796))
commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III. Under...
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Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (redirect from Félix Baciocchi (1762-1841))
Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (18 May 1762 – 27 April 1841) was a French army officer. He married Elisa Bonaparte, a sister of Napoleon. He was born in Ajaccio...
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The Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762) between 5 May and 24 November, was a military episode in the wider Fantastic War in which Spain and France were...
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Peter III of Russia (category 1762 deaths)
February [O.S. 10 February] 1728 – 17 July [O.S. 6 July] 1762) was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when he was overthrown...
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Kingdom of Kartli (redirect from Kingdom of Kartli (1484-1762))
Kingdom of Georgia in 1478 and existed, with several brief intervals, until 1762 when Kartli and the neighbouring Georgian kingdom of Kakheti were merged...
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(1761–1762) Lemar as Lord Smythe-Smith (1761–1762) Nicola Alexis as Lady Smythe-Smith (1761–1762) Harry Omosele as the Duke of Hastings (1761–1762) James...
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Stanisław Poniatowski (15 September 1676 – 29 August 1762) was a Polish military commander, diplomat, and noble. Throughout his career, Poniatowski served...
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The Treaty of Fontainebleau, signed on November 3, 1762, was a secret agreement of 1762 in which the Kingdom of France ceded Louisiana to Spain. The treaty...
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Alexander Lindsay of Evelick, 3rd Baronet (11 May 1683, Dunfermline – 6 May 1762, Evelix) was a Scottish baronet from the Lindsay of Evelick family. He married...
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Seven Years' War (section 1761–1762)
Russia. Related conflicts include the 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War, and 1762 to 1763 Anglo-Spanish War. The War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748...
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loyalty, Parliament passed the American Protestant Soldier Naturalization Act 1762 (2 Geo. 3. c. 25), which offered British naturalization to those officers...
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Fantastic War (redirect from Spanish–Portuguese War (1762–63))
The Spanish–Portuguese War between 1762 and 1763 was fought as part of the Seven Years' War. Because no major battles were fought, even though there were...
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The Thefts upon the Thames Act 1762 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, granted royal assent on 2 June 1762. It aimed to discourage theft of...
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Spanish ship Conquestador (1755) (redirect from HMS Conquestador (1762))
Navy, launched in 1755. She was captured by the Royal Navy on 13 August 1762, and commissioned as the fourth rate HMS Conquestador. She was placed on...
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George IV (category 1762 births)
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from...
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scientific, rationalist, and Western-oriented system. Catherine the Great (r. 1762–1796) presided over further expansion of the Russian state by conquest, colonization...
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Events from the year 1762 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Jeffery Amherst...
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The siege of Cassel took place between October and November 1762, when an allied force of Hanoverian, Hessian and British troops under the command of the...
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"1762 leto" (Bulgarian: 1762 лето [xiˈʎada i sɛdɛmˈstɔtin ˈʃɛstdɛsɛt i ˈftɔro ˈlɛto] or Песен за унищожението на Охридската патриаршия; Macedonian: 1762...
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John Parker (fl. 1762–1776) was a British painter. After some study in the Duke of Richmond's gallery of casts in London, Parker went to Chichester, where...
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The siege of Almeida took place in August 1762 when a Spanish force besieged and captured the city of Almeida from its Portuguese defenders during the...
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Walter Bagenal (c 1762 – 18 June 1814) was an Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1802 to 1812. He was elected...
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of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Emile, or On Education (1762) is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society. Rousseau's...
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Spanish ship Infanta (1750) (redirect from HMS Infanta (1762))
arriving at Cadiz on 30 April. She was captured by the Royal Navy on 13 August 1762, and commissioned as the third rate HMS Infanta (note change in spelling)...
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John Forwood (redirect from John Forwood (1762-1835))
1762 – May 22, 1835) was an American politician from Maryland. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates. John Forwood was born on April 1, 1762,...
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