1762

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Years:	1759 1760 1761 – 1762 – 1763 1764 1765

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1762 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1762 MDCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2515
Armenian calendar	1211 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6512
Bahá'í calendar	−82 – −81
Bengali calendar	1169
Berber calendar	2712
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 3 – 3 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2306
Burmese calendar	1124
Byzantine calendar	7270–7271
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4458 or 4398 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4459 or 4399
Coptic calendar	1478–1479
Discordian calendar	2928
Ethiopian calendar	1754–1755
Hebrew calendar	5522–5523
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1818–1819
- Shaka Samvat	1684–1685
- Kali Yuga	4863–4864
Holocene calendar	11762
Igbo calendar	762–763
Iranian calendar	1140–1141
Islamic calendar	1175–1176
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 12 (宝暦１２年)
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4095
Minguo calendar	150 before ROC 民前150年
Thai solar calendar	2305
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Year 1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January 4 – Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
January 5 – Empress Elisabeth of Russia dies and 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 of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, over 500,000 men, women and children perish 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 – Battle of Wilhelmsthal: 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 13 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Havana concludes after more than two months with the surrender of Havana by Spain to Great Britain.
September – Empress Go-Sakuramachi succeeds her brother Emperor Momozono on the throne of Japan.
September 15 – Battle of Signal Hill: British troops defeat the French.
September 24–October 5 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.
October 29 – Battle of Freiberg: Prince Henry of Prussia, Frederick's brother, defeats the Austrian army of Marshal Serbelloni.
November 13 – Treaty of Fontainebleau, a secret agreement in which Louis XV of France cedes Louisiana (New France) to Charles III of Spain.

Louis XV orders the construction of the Petit Trianon, in the park of the Palace of Versailles, for his mistress Madame de Pompadour.
Neolin, a Delaware tribe prophet, begins to preach in America.
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.
Building of the Plymouth Synagogue in Plymouth, England, the oldest built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English-speaking world.
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes his famous books, The Social Contract and Émile, or On Education
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's architectural treatise Antiquities of Athens.

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