1760

events

• 28. April: The Frenchmen under general François Gaston de Lévis defeat the British garrison of Québec under general James Murray in the battle with Sainte Foy and besiege thereupon unsuccessfully Québec
• 23. June:The Austrians strike those Prussia with land hat
• 8. July: British warships destroy a French squadron with auxiliary supplies for Montréal 14 in combat on the Restigouche river ( Canada
• ). to 30. July: Prussia fire at Dresden, of1 is kept occupied to 13,000
• Austrians. August: Battle of being castle
• 15. August: Friedrich II. achieves a victory with last Kraft owing to his legendary rider general Hans Joachim of Zieten with Liegnitz
• 3. November: Also in the battle Those triumph to gate gau to Prussia
• 8. September: The garrison of Montréal capitulates before the British under general Jeffrey Amherst. With it in fact the French rule in Canada 29
• ends. September: British major Robert Rogers takes the combatlessSurrender of the French Forts Detroit against
• 9. October: Berlin is taken by the Russians and Österreicher
• establishment of Abu Dhabi, today capital of the united Arab emirates
• register OF Shipping in London based as the first union of the insurers
• JohannHeinrich Lambert, elsässischer universal scholar, justifies the Photometrie (photometry)
• the English king George II. (Cure prince of Hanover) and his grandchild George III. dies. follows it after the throne

born

• 10. January: Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, GermanComposer and Kapellmeister († 1802)
• 12. January: Friederike Bethmann Unzelmann, German actress and singer († 1815)
• 14. February: Ferdinand of Meggenhofen, civil servant and member of the Illuminatenordens († 1790)
• 15. February: Jean François Lesueur,French church musician and composer († 1837)
• 22. February: Sophie of Saxonia Hildburghausen, duchess of Saxonia Coburg Saalfeld († 1776)
• 1. March: François Nicolas Léonard Buzot, French revolutionary († 1794)
• 2. March: Camille Desmoulins, leader of the FrenchRevolution († 1794)
• 20. March: Joseph Christian Lillie, Danish architect and interior decorator († 1827)
• 28. March: Alexandre de Beauharnais, Präsident of the French national assembly († 1794)
• 28. March: George Adlersparre, Swedish general,Politician and writer († 1835)
• 7. April: Fra Diavolo, bandit and resistance fighter († 1806)
• 16. April: Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, pharmacist, chemist, technical writer († 1833)
• 30. April: Johann God praise Nathusius, GermanBuyer and large-scale manufacturer († 1835)
• 1. May: Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren, German chemist († 1798)
• 10. May: Charles Melchior Arthur, marquis de Bonchamp, Anführer of the Vendéer († 1793)
• 10. May: Claude Joseph Rougetde Lisle, French composer, poet and officer († 1836)
• 10. May: Johann Peter Hebel, German poet († 1826)
• 23. May: Joseph of Zerboni di Sposetti, Prussian civil servant, journalist, poet and Freimaurer († 1831)
• 5. June: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist († 1852)
• 20. June: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Colley Wellesley, 1. Marquess Wellesley, British statesman († 1842)
• 22. June: Joseph Ludwig Colmar, bishop of Mainz († 1818)
• 26. June: Johann I. Josef (Liechtenstein), Austrian field marshal († 1836)
• 7. July: Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1. August: William Anton of Klewiz, Prussian politician and civil servant († 1838)
• 22. August: Leo XII., Pope 1823-1829 († 1829)
• 31. August: Aristide Aubert Dupetit Thouars, French admiral and sailor († 1798)
• 8. September: Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer († 1842)
• 15. September: BogislavFriedrich Emanuel of Tauentzien, Prussian general of the infantry († 1824)
• 17. October: Henri de Saint Simon, Aristokrat without means, officer and journalist († 1825)
• 20. October: Alexandre de Lameth, French soldier and politician († 1829)
• 27. October: August count Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian general field marshal and Heeresreformer († 1831)
• 31. October: Katsushika Hokusai, one of the most important representatives of the Japanese Ukiyo e († 1849)
• 11. November: Landolin ohm eight, sculptors(† 1834)
• 13. November: Jiaqing, emperor of China († 1820)
• 14. November: Joachim Bernhard Nicolaus hackers, theologian, poet and writer († 1817)
• 23. November: François Noël Babeuf, French agitator and journalist(† 1797)
• 2. December: Joseph Graetz, German organist and composer († 1826)

• Ádam Pálóczi Horváth: Hungarian writer, people song collecting tank and composer († 1820)

died

• 27. February: Anna Magdalena brook, secondMrs. von Johann Sebastian brook (* 1701)
• 14. March: Anton Fils, German composer (* 1733)
• 11. April: Prince Moritz of notion Dessau, Prussian army leader (* 1712)
• 24. April: Michele Mascitti, Italian Violinistand composer (* 1664)
• 9. May: Nikolaus count von Zinzendorf, Gründer of the gentleman Mr. brother common (* 1700)
• 10. May: Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer (* 1683)
• 22. May: Rabbi Israel Eliezer ben,admits as of the Baal to Tov, founder of the Chassidismus
• 25. October: George II. (Great Britain), English king (* 1683) was 30 from 1727 to
• 1760. October: Christian Ludwig Liscow, German Satiriker (* 1701)
• 29. November: Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress (* 1697)
• 9. December: Josef Ferdinand Fromiller, Austrian painter (* 1693)