• 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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    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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    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 (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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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