1764

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s

Years: 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763 - 1764 - 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769

Events

• January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel
• February 15 - The American city of St. Louis is established.

Year in topic

• 1764 in literature:
  • The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
  • The Hartford Courant - founded (as The Connecticut Courant)
• 1764 in science

Births

• February 11 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (+ 1811)
• March 13 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• May 26 - Edward Livingston, jurist and statesman (+ 1836)

Deaths

• October 25-26 - William Hogarth, English painter and engraver
• November 20 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician

Monarchs/Presidents

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
• Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)

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