Editing 1761 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Third Battle of Panipat]]: In India, the armies of the [[Durrani Empire]] from Afghanistan, led by [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] and his coalition decisively defeat the [[Maratha Confederacy]], killing over 100,000 Maratha soldiers and civilians in battle and in a subsequent massacre, regaining territory lost by the [[Mughal Empire]] and restoring the Mughal Emperor, [[Shah Alam II]], to the throne in [[Delhi]] as the nominal ruler.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; In India, the [[Siege of Pondicherry (1760)|Siege of Pondicherry]] ends as the [[British Empire]] captures [[Pondicherry district|Pondichéry]] from the [[French colonial empire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1761 |title=Historical Events for Year 1761 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |date=November 21, 1761 |access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; An [[earthquake]] in [[London]] breaks chimneys in [[Limehouse]] and [[Poplar, London|Poplar]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; A second earthquake occurs in [[North London]], [[Hampstead]] and [[Highgate]].
* [[March 31]] &ndash; An [[1761 Portugal earthquake|8.5 magnitude earthquake]] strikes [[Lisbon]] in the [[Kingdom of Portugal]], but few deaths are reported because of censorship by the Portuguese government.<ref>{{cite web|title=Landmarks of World History: A Chronology of Remarkable Natural Phenomena: Eighteenth Century 1761-1770|url=http://www.phenomena.org.uk/page29/page38/page38.html|work=The Gallery of Natural Phenomena|year=2010|access-date=2016-02-01}}</ref> with effects felt as far north as Scotland.