Year 1763 (MDCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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January–June

• February 1 – The Royal Colony of North Carolina officially creates Mecklenburg County from the western portion of Anson County. The county is named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who married George III of the United Kingdom in 1761.
• February 10 – French and Indian War/Seven Years' War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.^[1]
• February 15 – The Treaty of Hubertusburg puts an end to the Seven Years' War between Prussia and Austria and their allies.
• February 23 – The Berbice Slave Uprising starts in the former Dutch colony of Berbice.
• March 1 – Charles Townshend becomes President of the Board of Trade in the British government.
• May 7 – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
• June 2 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
• June 28 – A massive earthquake occurs on the same day in Kom rom in Hungary, and in Zs mb k in Hungary.

July–December

• July 7 – The British East India Company declare Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, to be deposed.^[2][3]
• August 2 – Mir Qasim routed at Odwa Nala.^[2] He flees to Patna, where he massacres the English garrison,^[3] but is subsequently defeated at Katwa, Murshidabad, Giria, Sooty, Udayanala and Munger.
• August 5 – Pontiac's War – Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run in the Pennsylvania backcountry.
• August – Fire in Smyrna, Turkey, destroys 2,600 houses.
• September 1 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
• October 7 – The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is issued by George III of the United Kingdom, restricting westward expansion of British North America and stabilizing relations with indigenous peoples of the Americas.
• November 24 – Bayes' theorem is first announced.^[4]

Date unknown

• Little Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, damaged in an earthquake.
• The seat of colonial administration in the Viceroyalty of Brazil is moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro.
• Joseph Haydn writes his Symphony No. 13.

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Births

• January 8 – Edmond Charles Gen t, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (d. 1834)
• January 24 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
• January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, King Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Charles III John of Norway (d. 1844)
• February 14 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
• March 9 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
• March 13 – Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, Marshal of France (d. 1815)
• March 21 – Jean Paul, German writer (d. 1825)
• May 7 – J zef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (d. 1813)
• May 21 – Joseph Fouch , French statesman (d. 1820)
• June 20 – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (d. 1798)
• June 23 – Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814)
• July 17 – John Jacob Astor, German-born entrepreneur (d. 1848)
• August 17 – Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (d. 1831)
• December 25 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunication pioneer (d. 1805)
• December 28 – John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur (d. 1836)
• December 31 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)

Deaths

• January 11 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
• January 22 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• January 29 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
• February 11 – William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)
• February 12 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
• April 8 – Koca Rag p Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier ( b. 1698)
• May 3 – George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. c. 1679)
• August 21 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
• September 26 – John Byrom, English poet (b. 1692)
• October 28 – Heinrich, count von Br hl, German statesman (b. 1700)
• November 10 – Joseph Dupleix – French governor general at Pondicherry
• November 23 – Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
• December 17 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (b. 1722)
• December 23 – Antoine Fran ois Pr vost, writer (b. 1697)

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