1765
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| Years: | 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1765 MDCCLXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2518 |
| Armenian calendar | 1214 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԴ |
| Chinese calendar | 4401/4461-12-10 (甲申年十二月初十日) — to — 4402/4462-11-20(乙酉年十一月二十日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1757 – 1758 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5525 – 5526 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1820 – 1821 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1687 – 1688 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4866 – 4867 |
| Iranian calendar | 1143 – 1144 |
| Islamic calendar | 1179 – 1180 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2308 |
1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- Sons of Liberty created
- 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
- Nicholas Cugnot pioneers the automobile with a three-wheel gun tractor
- James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with a more effective steam engine
- In Lisbon, the auto-da-fe parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished
- Josef II becomes Holy Roman Emperor
- Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto
- The birth of Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony.
January
February
March
- 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 had actually committed suicide.
- March 22 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
- March 24 - Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops
April
May
June
- June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.
July
August
September
- September 21 - Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan.
October
November
- 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
Ongoing events
Births
- January 11 - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (died 1825)
- February 1 - Charles Hatchett, English chemist (died 1847)
- March 7 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)
- March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (died 1841)
- April 1 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (died 1810)
- April 6 - Duke Charles Felix of Savoy (died 1831)
- April 26 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (died 1815)
- June 15 - Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (died 1831)
- July 26 - Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d'Erlon, French marshal (died 1844)
- August 21 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (died 1837)
- September 18 - Pope Gregory XVI (died 1837)
- October 8 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer (died 1831)
- October 17 - Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (died 1818)
- October 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (died 1832)
- November 14 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (died 1815)
- November 17 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (died 1840)
- November 20 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician (died 1819)
- December 8 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (died 1825)
- James Smithson, English-born minerologist and chemist (died 1829)
- Peter Bagration, Russian general (died 1812)
Deaths
- March 3 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (born 1687)
- April 5 - Edward Young, English poet (born 1683)
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (born 1711)
- April 20 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (born 1674)
- May 17 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (born 1713)
- July 15 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (born 1705)
- August 18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1708)
- September 2 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (born 1719)
- October 10 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1688)
- October 21 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (born 1691)
- October 31 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (born 1721)
- November 30 - George Glas, Scottish merchant and adventurer (born 1725)
- December 3 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (born 1713)
- December 25 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist (born 1698)
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