4th January » Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
10th March » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
5th May » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) known as Treaty of St. Petersburg.
22nd May » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg (1762) known as Treaty of Hamburg.
6th June » British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana (1762) named Battle of Havana.
17th July » Catherine the Great called Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
Famous Birthdays in 1762
5th January » Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
20th January » Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
8th February » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1820)
24th February » Charles Frederick Horn, German-English composer and educator (d. 1830)
13th March » Anine Frølich, Danish ballerina (d. 1784)
24th March » Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer (d. 1830)
4th April » Stephen Storace, English actor and composer (d. 1796)
10th April » Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
29th April » Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general (d. 1833)
19th May » Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1814)
22nd May » Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1834)
1st June » Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary (d. 1844)
20th July » Jakob Haibel, Austrian tenor and composer (d. 1826)
12th August » George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
22nd September » Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
1st October » Anton Bernolák, Slovak priest and linguist (d. 1813)
15th October » Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (d. 1820)
16th October » Paul Hamilton (politician) called Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)
21st October » Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1818)
23rd October » Samuel Morey, American engineer (d. 1843)
30th October » André Chénier, Turkish-French poet (d. 1794)
1st November » Spencer Perceval, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)