1762

This page relates to the year 1762 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • the Jésuites are expelled of Guyana.
  • Foundation of a third Republic chestnut with the Surinam with a Dutch adviser at the side of the black chief.

Asia

Europe

  • January 2nd: The Spain declares the war with the Great Britain under the terms of a secret clause of the Pacte of family of 1761.
  • May 26th: Beginning of the ministry Tory of the count John Stuart Butts, Prime Minister for the Great Britain (fine in 1763).
  • May 5th: Treaty of Saint-Pétersbourg. Pierre III of Russia sign peace with Prussia and gives up the conquests of the Poméranie and Eastern Prussia.
  • May 22nd: Treaty of Hamburg between the Sweden and the Prussia.
    • Alliance enters the Russia and the Prussia. The Sweden, isolated in north, withdraws coalition. The France must choose the return to peace.
  • June 24th: Demolished France with the Battle of Wilhelmstahl.
  • July 21st: Victoire of Prussia on Austria with the Battle of Burkersdorf.
  • July 23rd: Second Battle of Lutterberg.
  • September 1st: Battle of Johannisberg
  • September 15th: Battle of Signal Hill.
  • September 18th: Capitulation of the Fort of Midsummer's Day (Ground-New-and-Labrador) held by the French.
  • October 29th: Victoire of Prussia on Austria with the Battle of Freiberg.
  • November 3rd: Signature of the preliminary of Fontainebleau.

  • Failure of the dispute led by Angelo Querini to Venice.
  • Turbid with Geneva where the “natives” (families living the city since more than two centuries) want to be made recognize political rights. The “middle-class men” (electorate) are obliged to make concessions and allow five families of “natives” to reach the middle-class per annum.
  • Abolition of the feudal rights in Savoy.

See also: War Seven Year old

States of Habsbourgs

  • Reform of the Room of the accounts and creation of a Court of Auditors. Heberstein becomes president of the room of the accounts with Vienna.
  • Establishment of a chancellery common to the Austria and the Bohemia and regional governments.
  • the pontifical bubbles can be published only after authorization of the sovereign.
  • Vis-a-vis country agitation, Vienna organizes in Transylvania regiments of Rumanian frontier guards whose members are released from serfdom.

France

  • March 9th: The Parlement of Toulouse condemns to dead Jean Calas, without the judgment being justified. It is carried out the following day.
  • Mars: The principality of Dombes is joined together with the kingdom by exchange between the king and the count of Have against the duchy of Gisors in Normandy.
  • August 6th: Stop of the Parliament of Paris which removes the Society of Jesus, place its goods under sequestration and disperses the fathers. The Parliaments of province take in their turn a series of final adoptions removing the Society of Jesus in the kingdom (May-October).

Russia

  • January 5th: Pierre III of Holstein-Gottorp, physically weak and intellectually, succeeds his/her aunt Elisabeth.
  • January 18th: The noble ones are released from the military service.
  • January: Pierre III abolishes the secret Chancellery and removes the Torture. He reduces the taxation of salt and reduces the customs duties.
  • February: Creation of a bank of State. Five million roubles in assignats are put in circulation.
  • April 13rd: Admiror of Frederic II of Prussia, Pierre III signs peace with the Prussia and gives up the conquests of the Poméranie and the Eastern Prussia.
  • May 29th: Alliance with Prussia. 18  000 men (Tchernychev) leave in Silesia.
  • June 14th: Pierre III inaugurates a Church Lutheran with Oranienbaum and proclaims the equal rights between the Protestant Churches and the orthodoxe Church. Its interior policy supports the military plot (Alexis and Gregoire Orlov, NR. I. Panine) which carries his wife Sophie d' Anhalt-Zerbst, a princess of German origin, with the capacity under the name of Catherine II the June 28th (July 9th of the Gregorian Calendrier). Pierre III abdicates then will be assassinated a little later strangled, can be by Alexeï Orlov in mysterious circumstances.
  • July 9th: Accession with the capacity of the tsarina Catherine II of Russia (the Large one).
  • July 17th: Pierre III is assassinated in turbid circumstances.
  • July: Ukase protecting the gentlemen owners (they are released from the obligatory service of the state). The nobility becomes an order with privilege directed towards the land utilization. This reform makes accept the serfs with abolition serfdom (they are serf to serve the State), which on the contrary, hardens. 53 country revolts will burst of 1762 with 1769 in central Russia.
  • August: Suppression of all the monopolies.
  • October: Military plot against Orlov.
  • December: Potemkine is named chamberlain.

  • Biron is restored in its Duché of Courlande by Catherine II.

Art & culture

See also: 1762 with the theater, 1762 in literature

  • Arrived of the painter Italian baroque Giambattista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770) at Madrid. It is in charge of the painted decoration of the Residence with Madrid.
  • the architect Jacques Ange Gabriel builds the Petit Trianon with Versailles (fine in 1768).
  • the British architect Robert Adam lance neo-classic style. It remakes the decoration of Sion House (1762-1769) and Osterley Park (1761-1780). It builds Berkeley Square with London.
  • Antiquities of Athens ( Antiquities off Athens ) of the archeologists James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.

Science & technology

  • Raised of charts in India by the British.

  • Creation of the school veterinary surgeon of Lyon.
  • Hortus regius monspeliensis , of Antoine Gouan.

Economy & company

  • More 20  000 male prostitutes with Paris in the years 1762 - 1784.
  • the England in Great Britain produced 100  000 tons of cast iron (for 800  000 tons in Europe).
  • Maximum of the customs duties to the Denmark.
  • the first post office of Hungary is opened with Buda.

Births in 1762

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Death in 1762

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