• Thumbnail for 1761
    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...
    15 KB (1,875 words) - 10:32, 1 April 2024
  • 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...
    56 KB (5,728 words) - 12:31, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1751–1761)
    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...
    10 KB (726 words) - 00:55, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 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...
    39 KB (4,152 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
    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...
    73 KB (7,631 words) - 03:57, 26 April 2024
  • Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (category Fiction set in 1761)
    Danbury's son (1761) Lemar as Lord Smythe-Smith (1761) Nicola Alexis as Lady Smythe-Smith (1761) Harry Omosele as the Duke of Hastings (1761) James Fleet...
    41 KB (2,870 words) - 17:38, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763)
    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...
    19 KB (2,011 words) - 08:03, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Third Battle of Panipat
    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...
    62 KB (7,205 words) - 06:14, 27 April 2024
  • USS Tech Jr. (SP-1761), sometimes written as ID-1761, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during the latter half of 1917. Tech Jr. was...
    4 KB (261 words) - 14:32, 27 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for NGC 1761
    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...
    3 KB (221 words) - 18:08, 27 April 2024