1761

This article is about the year 1761.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s  1740s  1750s  – 1760s –  1770s  1780s  1790s
Years:	1758 1759 1760 – 1761 – 1762 1763 1764

1761 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1761 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1761 MDCCLXI
Ab urbe condita	2514
Armenian calendar	1210 ԹՎ ՌՄԺ
Assyrian calendar	6511
Bengali calendar	1168
Berber calendar	2711
British Regnal year	1 Geo. 3 – 2 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2305
Burmese calendar	1123
Byzantine calendar	7269–7270
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4457 or 4397     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4458 or 4398
Coptic calendar	1477–1478
Discordian calendar	2927
Ethiopian calendar	1753–1754
Hebrew calendar	5521–5522
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1817–1818
- Shaka Samvat	1683–1684
- Kali Yuga	4862–4863
Holocene calendar	11761
Igbo calendar	761–762
Iranian calendar	1139–1140
Islamic calendar	1174–1175
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 11 (宝暦１１年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4094
Minguo calendar	151 before ROC 民前151年
Thai solar calendar	2303–2304

Year 1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy and restore the Mughal Empire to Shah Alam II.

• January 14 – Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy and restore the Mughal Empire to Shah Alam II.
• January 16 – The British capture Pondichéry, India from the French.
• February 8 – An earthquake in London breaks chimneys in Limehouse and Poplar.
• March 8 – A second earthquake occurs in North London, Hampstead and Highgate.
• June 6 – A transit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth. Mikhail Lomonosov discovers atmosphere of Venus.

July–December

• July 17 - The first section of the Bridgewater Canal is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to Manchester.
• September 8 – George III of the United Kingdom marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen Charlotte).
• September 19 – The slave trade to and within Portugal is forbidden.
• September 22 – George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte are crowned.
• December 16 – Seven Years' War: After four months of siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolberg.

December 16: Kolberg.

Date unknown

• In Dutch Guyana, a "state" formed by escaped slaves signs a treaty with the local governor.
• Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory opens.
• The tune to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is published in France.
• Faber-Castell Company was founded by Kasper Faber in Nuremberg, Germany.
• Johann Heinrich Lambert found a proof that π is irrational.
• l'Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers is founded.

Births

• January 17 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
• February 1 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)
• February 16 – Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
• February 22 – Erik Tulindberg, Finnish composer (d. 1814)
• March 6 – Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French general (d. 1828)
• May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
• June 3 – Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor (d. 1842)
• October 21 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French painter and cartographer (d. 1824)
• October 27 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist (d. 1823)
• November 4 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver of medals (d. 1822)
• November 13 – John Moore, British general (d. 1809)
• November 20 – Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
• December 1 – Marie Tussaud, French wax modeller (d. 1850)
• December 27 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (d. 1818)

Deaths

• January 4 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (b. 1677)
• January 7 – Darkey Kelly, Irish madam and serial murderer, executed by burning
• January 10 – Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
• February 1 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
• April 4 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
• April 9 – William Law, English minister (b. 1686)
• April 15 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
• April 17 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. c. 1702)
• May 14 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
• June 2 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
• July 4 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
• July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (b. 1704)
• July 13 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
• August 3 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
• September 8 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
• November 30 – John Dollond, English optician (b. 1706)
• December 23 – Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy (b. c. 1725)