Editing 1760 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Barari Ghat]]: [[Durrani Empire|Afghan forces]] defeat the [[Maratha Confederacy|Marathas]]. 
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Wandiwash]], [[India]]: British general [[Sir Eyre Coote, KB|Sir Eyre Coote]] is victorious over the [[France in the Seven Years' War|French]] under the [[Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology320">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/320 320]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/320}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Benning Wentworth]] creates the New Hampshire Grant of [[Pownal, Vermont]].
* [[February 15]] &ndash; The British [[Royal Navy]] ship [[HMS Royal Katherine (1664)|HMS ''Royal Katherine'']] runs aground off [[Bolt Head]] in [[England]], with the loss of 699 lives.
* [[February 21]]&ndash;[[February 26|26]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Carrickfergus (1760)|Battle of Carrickfergus]] in the north of [[Ireland]] &ndash; A force of French troops, under the command of [[privateer]] [[François Thurot]], captures and holds the town and castle of [[Carrickfergus]] before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in a naval action in the [[Irish Sea]], on [[February 28]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Nicholas Rodger|last=Rodger|first=N. A. M.|title=The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815|location=London|publisher=Penguin Books; [[National Maritime Museum]]|year=2006|isbn=0-14-102690-1|page=283}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[French and Indian War]] & [[Anglo-Cherokee War]] &ndash; [[Cherokee]] natives attack a [[Royal Colony of North Carolina|North Carolina]] militia stationed at [[Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)|Fort Dobbs]], in the western part of the province. The attack is repelled by the militia, under the command of [[Hugh Waddell (general)|General Hugh Waddell]].
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The [[Great Boston Fire of 1760|Great Fire]] of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], destroys 349 buildings and marks the biggest conflagration in the American colonies up to this time.<ref> "Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p54</ref>