Timeline February 1763

Events in February 1763 5

• 1688 – 1763 Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763) Died 12 February 1763, aged 75 Pierre de Marivaux was a French novelist and playwright best known for comedies such as "The Game of Love and Chance" and novels including "La Vie de Marianne". His work explored the psychology of love and social disguise with a wit that gave rise to the term "marivaudage". He was a member of the Académie française.
• 1714 – 1763 William Shenstone (1714-1763) Died 11 February 1763, aged 48 William Shenstone was an English poet and landscape gardener celebrated for the ornamental garden he created at his estate, the Leasowes. His poetry and essays on landscape design influenced the development of the English landscape garden movement. He never married and devoted much of his income to his garden.
• 1763 Treaty of Paris signed Ends the Seven Years' War and French and Indian War Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, redrawing colonial borders across North America, the Caribbean, and India. France ceded Canada and territory east of the Mississippi to Britain while Spain ceded Florida to Britain in exchange for Cuba. The treaty confirmed Britain as the dominant colonial power.
• 1763 – 1813 Jean Victor Moreau (1763-1813) Died 2 September 1813, aged 50 Moreau was a French general who rivaled Napoleon in prestige before falling out of favor and going into exile in the United States. He returned to Europe in 1813 to serve as a military adviser to the Allied coalition against Napoleon. He was mortally wounded by French artillery fire while standing beside Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Dresden.
• 1763 Treaty of Hubertusburg signed Ends the Seven Years' War in Europe Prussia, Austria, and Saxony signed the Treaty of Hubertusburg, restoring prewar European borders and confirming Prussian control of Silesia. The peace cemented Prussia's status as a major European power alongside Austria. It closed the European theater of the Seven Years' War five days after the Treaty of Paris closed the colonial theater.