What happened 1761 AD

In 1761 Ebenezer Kinnersley demonstrated heating a wire to incandescence.

At the age of five, he was already composing little pieces, which he played to his father who wrote them down, these early pieces, K. 1–5, were recorded in the Nannerl Notenbuch. There is some scholarly debate about whether Mozart was four or five years old when he created his first musical compositions, though there is little doubt that Mozart composed his first three pieces of music within a few weeks of each other: K. 1a, 1b, and 1c.

Buckingham House was eventually sold by Buckingham's illegitimate son, Sir Charles Sheffield, in 1761 to George III for £21,000.

The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Selim III, was born in Topkap Palace in Istanbul.