1762

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Year 1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1762

January 4 - Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
January 5 - Death of the Empress Elisabeth of Russia, who is succeeded by her nephew Peter III. Peter, an admirer of Frederick the Great, immediately opens peace negotiations with the Prussians.
February 5 - The Great Holocaust (1762) of the Sikhs by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, over 500,000 men, women and children perished in this campaign of slaughter.
May 15 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) ends the war between Russia and Prussia.
May 22 - The Treaty of Hamburg takes Sweden out of the war against Prussia.
June 24 - The Battle of Wilhelmstal is fought. The Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander Lord Granby distinguishes himself.

July 9 - Catherine II becomes empress of Russia upon the deposition of her husband Peter III. The incipient Russo-Prussian alliance falls apart, but Russia does not rejoin the war.
July 21 - Battle of Burkersdorf. In his last major battle, Frederick defeats Marshal Daun in Silesia.

August 10 - British East India Company seizes the port city of Manila, Philippines from the Spaniards.
September 15 - Battle of Signal Hill is fought.
October 5 - The British take Manila and make it an Open Port.
October 29. Battle of Freiberg - Prince Henry of Prussia, Frederick's brother, defeats the Austrian army of Marshal Serbelloni.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau first publishes The Social Contract (Du Contrat Social).
Louis XV orders the construction of the Petit Trianon, in the park of the Palace of Versailles, for his mistress Madame de Pompadour.
Neolin begins to preach.
Empress Go-Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Momozono.
The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Kingston, named for King George III of the United Kingdom, as the county seat of Dobbs County, North Carolina. The name is later shortened to Kinston in 1784.
The Town of Charlottesville, Virginia is founded.