Short answers, pulled from the story.
The year 1760 saw Britain consolidate control over Canada after the Battle of Sainte-Foy on the 28th of April and the capture of Montreal on the 8th of September. King George II died on the 25th of October, and his 22-year-old grandson became George III. Tacky's War, a slave rebellion in Jamaica, began on the 7th of April and lasted 18 months.
George III became King of Great Britain after his grandfather George II died on the 25th of October 1760. George III was 22 years old at the time and went on to reign for 59 years until his death on the 29th of January 1820.
Tacky's War was a slave rebellion that began in Jamaica on the 7th of April 1760 and lasted 18 months. More than 400 Black rebels died in its suppression, 60 white residents were killed, and 500 rebels were deported to British Honduras. In response, the Jamaican Assembly outlawed the African religious practice of obeah on the 18th of December 1760, imposing penalties from banishment to execution.
Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who presented a paper at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris on the 30th of April 1760. The paper used a mathematical model for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease, a method that would influence how scientists understood epidemics for centuries afterward.
The Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris was the world's first free school for the deaf, founded by Abbe Charles-Michel de l'Epee in Paris in 1760. In the same year, Thomas Braidwood established Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb in Edinburgh, the first school for the deaf in Britain.
Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov, died on the 22nd of May 1760. Born in 1698 in Poland, he was the founder of Hasidic Judaism, a movement that emphasised spiritual joy and direct religious experience, reshaping Jewish life across Eastern Europe.