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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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...
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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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    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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    Lieutenant-Colonel James Burton (né James Haliburton; 29 July 1761 – 31 March 1837) was the most successful property developer of Regency and of Georgian...
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    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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