Anniversarial for 2010: 250 years
1760 sees a change of ruler in Great Britain as George II dies on 25 October and is succeeded by his grandson, George III; a momentous change as it is under George III that the United States of America will achieve independence. Among the items that will be highlighted this year, we will consider some of the more important and/or more unusual and interesting figures whose birth or death is marked in 2010, and who appear in EE:
1760 — births
- L'Avant-coureur (founded 1760), French newspaper
- Babeuf, François Noël (1760–1797), French revolutionary politician
- Baillie, Agnes (1760–1861), English gentlewoman
- Bannister, John (1760–1836), English actor
- Beauharnais, Alexandre François Marie de, vicomte de Beauharnais (1760–1794), French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, general
- Bowdoin, Preeson (b. 1760), American merchant
- Crespé, Marie Madeleine de (1760–1796), French dancer
- Dayton, Jonathan (1760–1824), American revolutionary army officer, politician
- Didier, Jean Emmanuel (1760?–1829), Swiss bookseller, printer, politician
- Filliettaz, Marc Jacob (b. 1760), Swiss merchant
- Fonblanque, John de Grenier (1760–1838), English lawyer, legal writer, politician
- Fosdick, Nathaniel (1760–1819), American merchant, civil servant
- Franklin, William Temple (1760–1823), American diplomat
- Frost, William (1760–1821), American shopkeeper, inn-keeper
- Greville, Henry Francis (1760–1816), English army officer
- Hobart, Robert, 4th earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816), English politician
- Le Harivel-Durocher, Anne Louise Sophie (b. 1760), French gentlewoman
- Long, Charles (1760–1838), English politician, connoisseur
- Maury de Saint-Victor, Thérèse (b. 1760), French army officer's daughter
- Peltier, Jean Gabriel (1760–1825), French journalist
- Polwhele, Richard (1760–1838), English miscellaneous author
- Reveley, Willey (1760–1799), English architect
- Swanwick, John (1760–1798), American merchant, banker, politician
- Thatcher, Sarah (1760–1843), American politician's wife
- Thornton, Henry (1760–1815), English banker, political economist
- Turberville, George Lee (1760–1798), American planter, politician, army officer
- Weissenfels, Charles Frederick (c. 1760–1795), American army officer
- Wellesley, Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), Irish colonial governor
- Wolcott, Oliver, Jr (1760–1833), American government minister, state governor
1760 — deaths
- Bonneval, René de (1700–1760), French poet
- Brancas, Louis Antoine de, duc de Brancas-Villars (1682–1760), French aristocrat
- Chalamond de La Visclède, Antoine Louis de (1692–1760), French poet, academy member
- Cheyney, Thomas (1694–1760), English clergyman
- Dennis, Nicholas (1679–1760), English merchant
- Duncan, William (1717–1760), Scottish academic
- Fabiot Aunillon, Pierre Charles (1684–1760), French clergyman, author
- Fraser, James (d. c. 1760), Scottish physician, apothecary
- Freytag, Graf Franz von (d. 1760), German diplomat
- George II, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1683–1760), British monarch
- Montmorency, Anne Marie de, princesse de Robecq (1728–1760), French princess, salon hostess
- Podewils, Graf Heinrich von (1695–1760), German government minister
- Sarasin, Jean, l'aîné (1693–1760), Swiss protestant minister
- Sauvé, Jean Baptiste Simon (1701–1760), French actor, playwright
- Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Johanna Elisabeth von, princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (1712–1760), German princess
- Turnbull of Dalladies, George (d. 1760), Scottish lawyer
- Ulfeld, Graf Anton Corfiz von (1699–1760), Austrian government minister
- William VIII, landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (1682–1760), German monarch