1765

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Years:	1762 1763 1764 - 1765 - 1766 1767 1768

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Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Countries:   Canada - Great Britain -

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1765 (MDCCLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1765 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1765

January - June

• January 23 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna.
• March 9 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have committed suicide.
• March 22 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, which is the first direct tax levied from Great Britain on the American colonies.
• March 24 - Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, requiring the 13 American colonies to house British troops.
• May 18 - Fire destroys one quarter of the town of Montreal, Quebec.
• June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.

July - December

• August
  • Josef II becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
  • The Sons of Liberty is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
• August 9 - Russian Empress Catherine II issues a decree authorizing the new way to produce vodka (by freezing).
• September 6 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house in Switzerland is stoned by a mob.
• September 21 - François Antoine (also wrongly titled Antoine de Beauterne) announces he has killed the Beast of Gévaudan.
• October 17 - The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a Mr. McCullough, the Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest of the Stamp Act. A Dr. Huston is appointed to the position.
• November 1 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies, in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
• December 12 - The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that Dr. Huston, the recently instated Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest of the Stamp Act.

Undated

• The first chocolate factory in the United States (Dorchester, Massachusetts) is established by Dr. James Baker.
• The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul.
• James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with the more effective Watt steam engine.
• In Lisbon, the auto-da-fe parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished.
• Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto.

Ongoing events

• War of the Regulation (1764-1771)

Births

1765 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1765 MDCCLXV
Ab urbe condita	2518
Armenian calendar	1214 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-79 – -78
Berber calendar	2715
Buddhist calendar	2309
Burmese calendar	1127
Byzantine calendar	7273 – 7274
Chinese calendar	甲申年十二月初十日 (4401/4461-12-10) — to — 乙酉年十一月二十日 (4402/4462-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1481 – 1482
Ethiopian calendar	1757 – 1758
Hebrew calendar	5525 – 5526
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1820 – 1821
- Shaka Samvat	1687 – 1688
- Kali Yuga	4866 – 4867
Holocene calendar	11765
Iranian calendar	1143 – 1144
Islamic calendar	1178 – 1179
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 2 (明和2年)
Korean calendar	4098
Thai solar calendar	2308
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• January 11 - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (d. 1825)
• February 1 - Charles Hatchett, English chemist (d. 1847)
• March 7 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
• March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• April 1 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
• April 6 - Duke Charles Felix of Savoy (d. 1831)
• April 26 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (d. 1815)
• June 15 - Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (d. 1831)
• July 11-Abigail Adams Smith, firstborn daughter of Abigail Adams and John Adams (d. 1813)
• July 26 - Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d'Erlon, French marshal (d. 1844)
• August 21 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
• September 18 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1837)
• October 8 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer (d. 1831)
• October 17 - Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (d. 1818)
• October 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (d. 1832)
• November 14 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
• November 17 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
• November 20 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician (d. 1819)
• December 8 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
• date unknown
  • Pyotr Bagration, Russian general (d. 1812)
  • Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony
  • James Smithson, British mineralogist and chemist who left a bequest in his will to the United States of America, which was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution (d. 1829)

Deaths

• March 3 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
• March 27 - Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina (b. 1689)
• April 5 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
• April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)
• April 20 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1681)
• May 17 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
• July 15 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
• August 18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• September 2 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
• October 10 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
• October 21 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
• October 31 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
• November 30 - George Glas, Scottish merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
• December 3 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (b. 1713)
• December 16 - Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born military officer and surveyor
• December 25 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist (b. 1698)

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