1760s
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Art and culture
- Catherine the Great's rule begins
- Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist becomes a major attraction in the London of 1762
Literature
Fiction
- Diderot begins writing La Religieuse in 1760
- Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) by Rousseau
- An Essay on Woman (1763), a poem attributed to Thomas Potter and British radical politician John Wilkes
- The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
Non-fiction
- Du culte des dieux fétiches (1760) by Charles de Brosses
- L'Onanisme (1760) , a book by Swiss physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot in which he declares masturbation dangerous
- Harlekin oder Verteidigung des Groteske-Komischen (1761, defense of the Harlequin and the comic grotesque) by Justis Moeser
- The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins: "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
- Anecdotes of Painting in England by Horatio Walpole
- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) by Immanuel Kant
Visual art
- The beginning of the end of Rococo occurred in the early 1760s, when a handful of French students were experimenting with classical styles at the French Academy in Rome, a style taken up in avant-garde salons in Paris from the mid-1760s, as the Gout Grec ("Greek taste"), but which made no appearance at Court until the new king Louis XVI and his fashion-loving Queen came to the throne in 1771. By 1780, Rococo was passé in metropolitan French circles. It remained popular in the provinces ("French provincial") and in Italy, until the second, archaeological phase of neoclassicism, "Empire style," swept the Rococo away.
- Basket of Wild Strawberries by Jean-Siméon Chardin
- Paris Salon of 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769
- La Dormeuse (1765) by Pierre Antoine Baudouin
Music
Architecture
Births
- Hokusai (1760 - 1849)
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
- Jan Potocki (1761-1815)
- Xavier de Maistre (1763 – 1852)
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823)
Deaths
- Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
- Abbé Prévost (1697 - 1763)
- William Hogarth (1697 – 1764)
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