Today in History for Year 1763

Months in Year 1763: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 12 of 12

Feb 10th - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
Feb 12th - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
Feb 15th - Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
Apr 30th - London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
May 16th - Samuel Johnson 1st meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
Jun 2nd - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
Aug 5th - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
Sep 1st - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
Oct 7th - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
Nov 15th - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
Nov 16th - English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel
Dec 2nd - Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45

Jan 3rd - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator
Jan 8th - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
Jan 20th - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
Jan 24th - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
Jan 26th - Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
Jan 29th - J G Seume, writer
Feb 1st - Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
Feb 3rd - Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
Feb 9th - Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
Feb 14th - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
Feb 19th - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
Feb 20th - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
Mar 6th - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
Mar 9th - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
Mar 13th - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)
Mar 21st - Jean Paul, writer
Apr 2nd - Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
Apr 7th - Domenico Dragonetti, composer
May 4th - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
May 7th - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general/marshal of France (d. 1813)
May 8th - John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman
May 11th - János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
May 16th - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
May 21st - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
Jun 1st - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
Jun 13th - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil
Jun 14th - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
Jun 15th - Franz Danzi, composer
Jun 20th - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
Jun 21st - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
Jun 23rd - Josephine Martiniques, empress of France (1804-14)
Jun 26th - George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes
Jul 2nd - Peter Ritter, composer
Jul 17th - Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
Jul 17th - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
Jul 30th - Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem)
Aug 8th - Charles Bulfinch, Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House)
Sep 2nd - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
Oct 12th - John Ross, composer
Oct 24th - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
Nov 28th - Matthaus Fischer, composer
Dec 23rd - John Davy, composer
Dec 25th - Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph)
Dec 28th - John Molson, founded Montreal brewery (Molsons)
Dec 31st - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 21 of 21

Jan 2nd - John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72
Jan 11th - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
Jan 27th - John Theodor of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies
Jan 29th - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
Feb 11th - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)
Feb 12th - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
May 3rd - George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
Jun 1st - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
Jul 17th - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
Jul 31st - James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies
Aug 9th - John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47
Aug 14th - Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76
Aug 21st - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
Sep 14th - Johann Philipp Sack, composer, dies at 40
Sep 26th - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
Oct 5th - August III, king of Poland, dies at 66
Oct 17th - Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
Oct 22nd - French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73
Oct 28th - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
Nov 23rd - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
Dec 2nd - Carl August Thielo, composer, dies at 56