1763

1763 (MDCCLXIII) was a common year beginning on a Saturday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

10 February: The Paris Treaty is signed

• 5 January: in the Rio de la Plata, without mediating a declaration of war, eleven English and Portuguese ships attack Montevideo (in the hands of the Spaniards), but do not manage to take it.
• 27 January: the capital of the State of Brazil moves from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro, beginning the Viceroy of Brazil.
• February 10: the Seven Years War ends with the signing of the Paris Treaty. France loses its colonies in North America and Spain yields Florida in exchange for the territories west of the Mississippi River.
• 15 February: signature Peace of Hubersburgwhich puts an end to the differences between Austria and Prussia in the Seven Years War.
• February 23: Berbice Slave Uprising.
• 22 March: in Spain the Body of Artillery of the Navy is created.
• April 27: Rebellion of Pontiac in North America.
• June 28: A 6.5 earthquake shakes Hungary.
• 5 October: begins a brief interregno in Poland-Lithuania following the death of Augustus III of Poland.
• 7 October: Real proclamation of 1763 by George III of the United Kingdom as a result of the acquisition by Britain of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years War.

Science and technology

• David Hume: History of England.
• Thomas Bayes publishes his Bayes Theorem

Music

• Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 13

Births

• January 26: Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, French military, and King of Sweden (f. 1844).
• March 21: Jean Paul. German writer (f. 1825).
• April 9: Domenico Dragonetti, an Italian musician, considered the first virtuoso of the bass (f. 1846).
• June 20: Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist (f. 1798).
• June 23: Josefina de Beauharnais, French empress (f. 1814).
• September 17: Francisco das Chagas Santos, Brazilian military and political, destroyer of Jesuit missions (f. 1840).
• 8th of November: Xavier de Maistre, a military writer and a saboyan writer (f. 1852).

Deaths

• 12 February: Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, playwright and French writer (n. 1688).
• July 4th: Antonio Richarte, late-barroco painter, Spanish (n. 1790).
• July 11: Pehr Forsskål, scout, orientalist and Swedish naturalist (n. 1732).
• 5 October: August III, ruler of Poland-Lithuania (n. 1696).
• 25 November: Abate Prévost, French novelist (n. 1697).