1760 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1760 in Great Britain. This year sees a change of monarch.

Incumbents

22 January – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Wandiwash in India, British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the French under Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau.^[2]
15 February – HMS Royal Katherine runs aground off Bolt Head, South Devon, with the loss of 699 lives.
21–26 February – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on 28 February.^[3]
June – Scottish Presbyterian preacher Dr. James Fordyce moves to London.
3 July – a lightning strike causes a major fire at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard; substantial rebuilding follows.^[4]^[5]
31 July – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Warburg, the British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick storms Warburg, with a heroic role being played by the British commander Lord Granby.^[6]
8 September – Seven Years' War: Jeffery Amherst captures Montreal.^[7]
25 October – George III ascends to the throne following the death of his grandfather George II.^[2] He will reign until 29 January 1820. He surrenders the income from the Crown Estate to the government in exchange for a civil list contribution to maintaining the Royal Household.
Thomas Braidwood establishes Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb in Edinburgh, the first school for the deaf in Britain.

5 May – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, murderer (hanged) (born 1720)
30 September – Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry, society beauty (lead poisoning) (born 1732)
25 October – King George II of Great Britain (born 1683, Hanover)

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