Longitude (Sobel, 1995)
1760 · Resource
Dava Sobel on John Harrison's lone quest to build a clock that could fix longitude at sea.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1760
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)