Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1761. 1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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Louis Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy (13 September 1751 – 22 March 1761), was a French prince of the House of Bourbon, and as such was second-in-line...
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Fantastic War (redirect from Spanish-Portuguese War, 1761-1763)
motivated to preserve Spain's prestige as a European and colonial power. By 1761 France looked to be losing the war against Great Britain. Fearing a British...
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NGC 1761 (also known as GC 980, JH 2710, LH 9) is an open cluster in the Dorado constellation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It encompasses a group of...
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Transit of Venus (redirect from 1761 transit of Venus)
transit from nearby Broughton. Kepler had predicted transits in 1631 and 1761 and a near miss in 1639. Horrocks corrected Kepler's calculation for the...
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Events from the year 1761 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Jeffery Amherst...
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The See-Saw (Fragonard, Louvre) (redirect from The See-Saw (c.1761-1765))
The See-Saw is an oil painting on canvas of c. 1761–1765 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It and The Palette Game were rediscovered in a château in Orne in 2016...
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Third Battle of Panipat (redirect from Battle of Panipat in 1761)
The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761 between the Maratha Confederacy and the invading army of the Durrani Empire. The battle took...
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Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763) (redirect from Anglo-Spanish War (1761))
countries were ruled by branches of the Bourbon family) in August 1761. In December 1761, Spain placed an embargo on British trade, seized British goods...
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Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and...
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