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August 13: British troops storm Havana on the island of Cuba and occupy the Spanish city.(shown:The Piazza at Havana by Dominic Serres.) The Piazza at Havana RMG BHC0418.tiff
August 13: British troops storm Havana on the island of Cuba and occupy the Spanish city.(shown: The Piazza at Havana by Dominic Serres.)
1762 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1762
MDCCLXII
Ab urbe condita 2515
Armenian calendar 1211
ԹՎ ՌՄԺԱ
Assyrian calendar 6512
Balinese saka calendar 1683–1684
Bengali calendar 1168–1169
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)
4459 or 4252
     to 
壬午年 (Water  Horse)
4460 or 4253
Coptic calendar 1478–1479
Discordian calendar 2928
Ethiopian calendar 1754–1755
Hebrew calendar 5522–5523
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1818–1819
 - Shaka Samvat 1683–1684
 - Kali Yuga 4862–4863
Holocene calendar 11762
Igbo calendar 762–763
Iranian calendar 1140–1141
Islamic calendar 1175–1176
Japanese calendar Hōreki 12
(宝暦12年)
Javanese calendar 1687–1688
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4095
Minguo calendar 150 before ROC
民前150年
Nanakshahi calendar 294
Thai solar calendar 2304–2305
Tibetan calendar 阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1888 or 1507 or 735
     to 
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1889 or 1508 or 736

1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar  and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1762nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 762nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1762, the Gregorian calendar was 11days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Events

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Births

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottlieb Fichte.jpg
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
George IV of the United Kingdom George IV 1821 color.jpg
George IV of the United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister assassinated in 1812. Spencer PercevalCE.jpg
Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister assassinated in 1812.

Date unknown

Deaths

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Elizabeth of Russia
Peter III of Russia, nephew of Elizabeth. Coronation portrait of Peter III of Russia -1761.JPG
Peter III of Russia, nephew of Elizabeth.

References

  1. "Historical Events for Year 1762 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. October 6, 1762. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  2. Greentree, David. A Far-Flung Gamble: Havana 1762. Osprey, 2010. p.16
  3. Greentree p.17
  4. Christopher Hull, British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898–1964 (Springer, 2013)
  5. Ronald Schechter, A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2018) p. 64
  6. Alison Fortier, A History Lover's Guide to New York City (Arcadia Publishing, 2016) p. 135
  7. James Melvin Lee, History of American Journalism (Houghton Mifflin, 1917) p. 66
  8. Anjan Kundu, Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves (Springer, 2007) p. 299
  9. Sue Peabody, "There are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime (Oxford University Press, 1996) pp. 73–75
  10. 1 2 A. W. Ward, et al., eds., The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 6: The Eighteenth Century (The Macmillan Company, 1909) p. 298
  11. William R. Reynolds, Jr., The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries (McFarland, 2015) p. 108
  12. S. M. Dubnow and I. Friedlander, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1916) p. 260
  13. Bruce F. Pauley, Pioneering History on Two Continents: An Autobiography (Potomac Books, 2014) p. 2