Major Events
- Jan 4 Seven Years' War: Great Britain declares war on Spain & Naples
- Jan 15 Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
- Feb 2 Thomas Arne's opera "Artaxerxes" premieres at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London, England
- Feb 12 British fleet occupies Martinique
- Mar 10 French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspires Voltaire to begin campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform
- Mar 17 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
- Apr 5 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
- May 5 Russia & Prussia sign Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years' War
- May 22 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg, reaffirming the status quo that existed before the Seven Years' War
- Jun 15 Austria uses 1st paper currency
- More 1762 Events
Samuel Morey
Spencer Perceval
Elizabeth of Russia
James Bradley
Peter IIIFamous Weddings in 1762
- Dec 21 British explorer Captain James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
Famous Divorces in 1762
- Jun 29 Russian Tsar Peter III divorces his wife Catherine II
Frederick the Great
Thomas Pelham-Holles