1762

1762 (MDCCLXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1762nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 762nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1762, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s  1740s  1750s  – 1760s –  1770s  1780s  1790s
Years:	1759 1760 1761 – 1762 – 1763 1764 1765

1762 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1762 MDCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2515
Armenian calendar	1211 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6512
Balinese saka calendar	1683–1684
Bengali calendar	1169
Berber calendar	2712
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 3 – 3 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2306
Burmese calendar	1124
Byzantine calendar	7270–7271
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4458 or 4398     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4459 or 4399
Coptic calendar	1478–1479
Discordian calendar	2928
Ethiopian calendar	1754–1755
Hebrew calendar	5522–5523
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1818–1819
- Shaka Samvat	1683–1684
- Kali Yuga	4862–4863
Holocene calendar	11762
Igbo calendar	762–763
Iranian calendar	1140–1141
Islamic calendar	1175–1176
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 12 (宝暦１２年)
Javanese calendar	1687–1688
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4095
Minguo calendar	150 before ROC 民前150年
Nanakshahi calendar	294
Thai solar calendar	2304–2305
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1888 or 1507 or 735     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1889 or 1508 or 736

Events

• Ongoing
  • Seven Years War (1756 - 1763)

Births

• August 12 – King George IV of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales (d. 1830)
• November 1 – Spencer Perceval, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)

Deaths

• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher