What happened 1760 AD

Wind-powered and horse-drawn mills were used to speed production, augmenting human labor. Heating the working areas of the table-mill, an innovation that emerged in France in 1732, also assisted in extraction. The Chocolaterie Lombart, created in 1760, claimed to be the first chocolate company in France, ten years before Pelletier et Pelletier.

The Spanish sacred music composer, Melchor Lpez, was born in Guadalajara, Spain.

The composer, Juana Manuela Olivera, was born in Venezuela in 1760.

The King of Great Britain and Ireland, George II, passed away at the age of 76.

The French ballet dancer, Marie-Jean Auguste Vestris, was born in Paris.

Johann Peter Hebel was a German writer who was born in 1760.

The American publisher, music teacher, and composer Ishmail Spicer was born in Bozrah, Connecticut.

The Italian composer Gaetano Valeri was born in Padua, Italy in 1760.

Russian and Austrian forces occupied Berlin in the 7 Years' War.

The author and composer Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle was born in France in 1760.

Richard Allen was the first African American to be ordination by the Methodist Episcopal church.

Ivan Dmitriev was born in the Russian Empire in the late 18th century.

John Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician who was born in Virginia.

Patrick O'Brien was the first known eight foot tall person and was born in Ireland in the 18th century.