Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years: 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 - 1765 - 1766 1767 1768 1769 1770
Events
- March 9 - Judges in Paris find Jean Calas innocent, (after having been tortured and executed in 1762) of murdering his son, Marc-Antoine, who had committed suicide), mainy because Voltaire wrote a series of articles calling for the case to be re-opened
- March 22 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
- March 24 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops
- May 18 - Fire destroys one quarter of town of Montreal, Quebec.
- June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.
- November 1 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
- The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul
- Nicholas Cugnot pioneers the automobile with a three-wheel gun tractor
- James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with a more effective steam engine
- In Lisbon, the auto-da-fe parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished
- Josef II becomes Holy Roman Emperor
- Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto
- January 11 - Antoine Alexandre Barbier - French librarian
- March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader - A German philosopher and theologian.
- April 1 - Luigi Schiavonetti - Italian engraver
- April 6 - Duke Charles Felix of Savoy
- June 15 - Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist
- August 21 - King William IV of the United Kingdom.
- September 18 - Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, the later Pope Gregory XVI
- October 8 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer
- October 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist
- November 14 - Robert Fulton - inventor, perfected the steamboat.
- December 8 - Eli Whitney, American inventor
- Charles Hatchett, English chemist who discovered niobium.
- James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
- Peter Bagration - Russian general
- Nicéphore Nièpce - French inventor
- March 3 - William Stukeley, English antiquary
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist
- May 17 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician
- August 18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
- October 31 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
- December 25 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
- Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)\n