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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1758 1759 1760 - 1761 - 1762 1763 1764
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1740s 1750s - 1760s ''' - 1770s 1780s 1790s
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| align="center" | - 18th Century ''' - 19th Century
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1761 was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
Ongoing events
Births
Deaths
- January 4 - Stephen Hales , English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (b. 1677 )
- January 10 - Edward Boscawen , British admiral (b. 1711 )
- February 1 - Pierre François Xavier De Charlevoix , French historian (b. 1682 )
- April 4 - Theodore Gardelle , Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722 )
- April 9 - William Law , English minister (b. 1686 )
- April 15 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke Of Argyll , Scottish politician (b. 1682 )
- April 17 - Thomas Bayes , English mathematician
- May 14 - Thomas Simpson , British mathematician (b. 1710 )
- June 2 - Jonas Alströmer , Swedish industrialist (b. 1685 )
- July 4 - Samuel Richardson , English writer (b. 1689 )
- July 13 - Tokugawa Ieshige , Japanese shogun (b. 1712 )
- August 3 - Johann Matthias Gesner , German classical scholar (b. 1691 )
- September 8 - Bernard Forest De Bélidor , French engineer (b. 1698 )
- November 30 - John Dollond , English optician (b. 1706 )
- December 23 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell , Scottish Jacobite spy
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