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
- The first modern circus was staged by Philip Astley in London, England on January 9, 1768.
- The flagellation of Rose Keller took place on April 3rd, Easter Day.
Literature
1760s
- 1769 in literature - The History of Emily Montague - Frances Brooke
- 1768 in literature - Poems - Thomas Gray
- 1767 in literature - Minna von Barnhelm - Gotthold Lessing
- 1766 in literature - The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
- 1765 in literature - Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement
- 1764 in literature - The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
- 1763 in literature - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson
- 1762 in literature - Emile: or, On Education, The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1761 in literature - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1760 in literature - Tristram Shandy (to 1770) - Laurence Sterne
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
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767)
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
- Le Pornographe (1769) by Restif de la Bretonne
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.
- Paris Salon of 1761, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1769
List of works
- Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) by Jean-Siméon Chardin
- Cupid Seller (1763), a painting by French artist Joseph-Marie Vien
- La Dormeuse (1765) by Pierre Antoine Baudouin
Music
Architecture
- The Petit Trianon, a small château located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France.
Births
- Hokusai (1760 - 1849)
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
- Jan Potocki (1761-1815)
- Xavier de Maistre (1763 – 1852)
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823)
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767 - 1824)
Deaths
- Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
- Abbé Prévost (1697 - 1763)
- William Hogarth (1697 – 1764)
- Canaletto (1697 – 1768)
See also
- 1700s - 1710s - 1720s - 1730s - 1740s- 1750s - 1760s - 1770s - 1780s - 1790s
- 1760 - 1761 - 1762 - 1763 - 1764 - 1765 - 1766 - 1767 - 1768 - 1769
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