1761

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s

Years: 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 - 1761 - 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766

• January 16 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French

Births

• May 3 -*August von Kotzebue - German Dramatist.
• November 4 - Bertrand Andrieu - French engraver of medals.
• December 1 - Marie Tussaud[?] - French Waxwork modeller
• Christian Hendrik Persoon - Mycologist.
• Henry Shrapnel - British Army officer and inventor.

Deaths

• Tokugawa Ieshige[?] - Shogun.
• April 4 - Theodore Gardelle - Swiss enameller
• April 7 - Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, noted for Bayes' theorem