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1761| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1760–1770 | North America [statistics and demography] | The estimated population of the North American colonies is 1,593,625 including 325,806 black slaves. | | 1761 | France [thought and scholarship] | The French philosopher Baron d'Holbach (Paul Heinrich Dietrich) publishes Le Christianisme dévoilé/Christianity Unveiled, an attack on Christian belief. D'Holbach is one of the leading contributors to Diderot's Encyclopédie/Encyclopedia. | | 1761 | UK [canals] | English engineer James Brindley completes the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal between Manchester and the Worsley collieries in northern England; it is the first British canal of major economic importance. | | 1761 | Italy [interiors] | The German neoclassical artist Anton Mengs paints the ceiling fresco Parnassus at the Villa Albani in Rome, Italy. Breaking with the grandiose baroque tradition of fresco painting, it becomes a central early work of neoclassicism. | | 14 January 1761 | India [wars] | A coalition of Afghan forces under Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Maratha army at Panipat, ending any prospect of Maratha succession to the Mogul empire. | | 16 January 1761 | India [Seven Years War (1754–62)] | The Irish-born British general Sir Eyre Coote takes the French base of Pondicherry after a three-month siege, ending French supremacy in southern India. |
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