Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1761. 1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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Fantastic War (redirect from Spanish-Portuguese War, 1761-1763)
motivated to preserve Spain's prestige as a European and colonial power. By 1761 France looked to be losing the war against Great Britain. Fearing a British...
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The 1761 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger...
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Duke of Westminster (section Barons Grosvenor (1761))
Sir Richard Grosvenor, the 7th Baronet, was created Baron Grosvenor in 1761, and in 1784 became both Viscount Belgrave (Belgrave, Cheshire) and Earl...
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Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and...
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Louis Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy (13 September 1751 – 22 March 1761), was a French prince of the House of Bourbon, and as such was second-in-line...
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NGC 1761 (also known as GC 980, JH 2710, LH 9) is an open cluster in the Dorado constellation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It encompasses a group of...
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Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (category Fiction set in 1761)
Danbury's son (1761) Lemar as Lord Smythe-Smith (1761) Nicola Alexis as Lady Smythe-Smith (1761) Harry Omosele as the Duke of Hastings (1761) James Fleet...
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Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763) (redirect from Anglo-Spanish War (1761))
countries were ruled by branches of the Bourbon family) in August 1761. In December 1761, Spain placed an embargo on British trade, seized British goods...
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Transit of Venus (redirect from 1761 transit of Venus)
transit from nearby Broughton. Kepler had predicted transits in 1631 and 1761 and a near miss in 1639. Horrocks corrected Kepler's calculation for the...
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Events from the year 1761 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Jeffery Amherst...
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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1761. August – Following the death of Johann Matthias Gesner, the chair of rhetoric...
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USS Tech Jr. (redirect from USS Tech Jr. (ID-1761))
USS Tech Jr. (SP-1761), sometimes written as ID-1761, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during the latter half of 1917. Tech Jr. was...
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Third Battle of Panipat (redirect from Battle of Panipat in 1761)
The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761 between the Maratha Confederacy and the invading army of the Durrani Empire. The battle took...
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761 was passed on 6 November 1962 in response to the racist policies of apartheid established by the South...
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James Burton (property developer) (redirect from James Burton (1761-1837))
Lieutenant-Colonel James Burton (né James Haliburton; 29 July 1761 – 31 March 1837) was an English property developer. He was the most successful property...
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Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (born 1745) (redirect from Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1745-1761))
Josef Emanuel Johann Nepomuk Anton Prokop; 1 February 1745 – 18 January 1761) was the second son and seventh child of the Habsburg ruler Empress Maria...
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John Rennie the Elder (redirect from John Rennie, (1761-1821))
John Rennie FRSE FRS (7 June 1761 – 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, docks and warehouses, and a pioneer...
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Governor (1757–1761) John Toovey, acting governor, April–June 1761 John Parslow, acting governor, June 1761 Edward Cornwallis, Governor (1761–1776) Jamaica...
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Siege of Pondicherry (1760) (redirect from Siege of Pondicherry (1761))
1760–1761, was a conflict in the Third Carnatic War, as part of the global Seven Years' War. Lasting from 4 September 1760 to 15 January 1761, British...
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William Wickham (civil servant) (redirect from William Wickham (1761-1840))
William Wickham PC PC (Ire) (11 November 1761 – 22 October 1840) was a British spymaster and a director of internal security services during the French...
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The year 1761 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. June 6 – The first transit of Venus since Edmond Halley suggested...
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Dirk van Hogendorp (redirect from Dirk van Hogendorp (1761–1822))
Dirk van Hogendorp (13 October 1761 – 29 October 1822) was a Dutch general, politician, colonial administrator and diplomat. In 1812 he was governor of...
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John Taylor (dissenting preacher) (redirect from John Taylor (1694-1761))
John Taylor (1694–1761) was an English dissenting preacher, Hebrew scholar, and theologian. The son of a timber merchant at Lancaster, he was born at Scotforth...
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Siege of Kolberg (Seven Years' War) (redirect from Battle of Kolberg (1761))
and successful siege took place from August to December 1761. In the sieges of 1760 and 1761, the Russian forces were supported by Swedish auxiliaries...
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Hanne Tott (redirect from James Price (1761-1805))
Hanne Todd and married in 1791 to the British circus manager James Price (1761-1805) and became the mother of the performers James Price (1801-1865), Carl...
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Princess Louise Henriette Karoline of Hesse-Darmstadt (15 February 1761 – 24 October 1829), was the first Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine by marriage...
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