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1764
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1764 in other calendars
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1764
MDCCLXIV |
| Ab urbe condita |
2517 |
| Armenian calendar |
1213
ԹՎ ՌՄԺԳ |
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4460 – 4461
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1819 – 1820 |
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1686 – 1687 |
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1142 – 1143 |
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1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
The Sugar Act
January
- January 7 - Siculicidium: the Massacre at Madéfalva (Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary) where hundreds of innocent Székely people were murdered by the Austrians.
- January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the United Kingdom House of Commons for seditious libel
February
- February 15 - The American city of St. Louis is established.
March
April
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June
July
August
September
September 7 - Stanisław August Poniatowski was elected as the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
October
Battle of Buxar (October 1764) was a significant battle fought between the forces under the command of the British East India Company on the one side, and the combined armies of Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal ; Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor. The battle fought at Buxar, a town (currently in Bihar state, India) located on the bank of the Ganges river, was a decisive battle won by the forces of the East India Company.
The battle resulted into securing of Diwani rights to administer the collection and management of revenues of large areas which currently form parts of Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh , as well as of Bangladesh. The Battle of Buxar heralded the establishment of the rule of the East India Company in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
November
- November 9 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- November 16 - Chief Pontiac surrenders to the British
December
Ongoing events
- War of the Regulation (1764-1771)
Births
- February 11 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (d. 1811)
- March 13 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
- April 3 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831)
- April 13 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
- May 5 - Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)
- May 26 - Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
- June 21 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
- August 13 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1813)
- December 7 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, Marshall of French (d. 1841)
Deaths
- March 6 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1690)
- March 17 - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer (born c.1696)
- March 30 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (born 1695)
- April 15 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (born 1721)
- April 17 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (born 1681)
- May 3 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (born 1712)
- June 29 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (born 1693)
- July 7 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (born 1683)
- July 16 - Tsar Ivan VI (murdered in prison) (born 1740)
- July 23 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (born 1703)
- September 2 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (born 1700)
- September 12 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (born 1683)
- September 23 - Robert Dodsley, English writer (born 1703)
- September 26 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (born 1676)
- October 2 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- October 23 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (born 1683)
- November 20 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (born 1690)
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