1761
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years: 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 - 1761 - 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766
Events
- January 16 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
Births
- May 3 -*August von Kotzebue - German Dramatist.
- November 4 - Bertrand Andrieu - French engraver of medals.
- December 1 - Marie Tussaud, French Waxwork modeller
- Christian Hendrik Persoon - Mycologist.
- Henry Shrapnel - British Army officer and inventor.
Deaths
- Tokugawa Ieshige - Shogun.
- Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, noted for Bayes' theorem