Editing 1762 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; A [[1762 Arakan earthquake|powerful earthquake]] along the border between modern-day [[Bangladesh]] and [[Myanmar]] causes a [[tsunami]] in the [[Bay of Bengal]] that kills at least 200 people.<ref>Anjan Kundu, ''Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves'' (Springer, 2007) p. 299</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; France issues a new ordinance requiring all black and mixed-race Frenchmen to register their identity information with the offices of the Admiralty Court, upon the advice of Guillaume Poncet de la Grave, adviser to [[Louis XV of France|King Louis XV]]. The new rule, which requires both free and enslaved blacks and mulattoes to list data including their age, surname, purpose for which they are residing in France, whether they have been baptized as Christians, where they emigrated from in Africa and the name of the ship upon which they arrived. Previously, the Declaration of 1738 required slave-owners to register their slaves, but placed no requirement on free people.<ref>Sue Peabody, ''"There are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime'' (Oxford University Press, 1996) pp. 73–75</ref>
* [[May 5]] (April 24 O.S.) &ndash; The [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762)|Treaty of Saint Petersburg]] ends the war between [[Russian Empire|Russia]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], and returns all of Russia's territorial conquests to the Prussians.<ref name=Ward>A. W. Ward, et al., eds., ''The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 6: The Eighteenth Century'' (The Macmillan Company, 1909) p. 298</ref> 
* [[May 22]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Hamburg (1762)|Treaty of Hamburg]] takes Sweden out of the war against Prussia.<ref name=Ward/> 
* [[May 26]] &ndash; Dissatisfied with the progress of the [[French and Indian War]], King George III dismisses his Prime Minister, the [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle|Duke of Newcastle]], and replaces him with his former tutor, Tory politician [[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute]].  The Bute ministry lasts less than a year before Stuart's resignation in 1763.
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Marco Foscarini]] becomes the new [[Doge of Venice|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Venice]] after the death of [[Francesco Loredan]], who had administered the Republic for 10 years.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; Cherokee Indian war chief [[Ostenaco]] and his two aides, Standing Turkey (Cunneshote) and Pouting Pigeon, are received by King George III. They had arrived three days earlier at Plymouth on the British frigate ''Epreuvre'' as guests of the [[Timberlake Expedition]] of [[Henry Timberlake]], to discuss terms of peace with the British government.<ref>William R. Reynolds, Jr., ''The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries'' (McFarland, 2015) p. 108</ref>
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Wilhelmsthal]]: The Anglo-Hanoverian army of [[Ferdinand of Brunswick]] defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander [[John Manners, Marquess of Granby|Lord Granby]] distinguishes himself.