Rulers:
• Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796)
Events:
• Pinacoteca Nazionale founded in Bologna.
Births:
• María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba (1762-1802)
Music:
• Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
Art:
• Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Veduta di Pirna (1755-65)
• Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Mercure et Argus (1761-62)
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): Portrait of a Young Lady (c.1760-65)
• Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770): L’Olimpo, o Trionfo di Venere (1761-64)