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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).

Events of 1765[]

January–June[]

  • January 23Joseph 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 24Great 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.
  • August 9Russian Empress Catherine II issues a decree authorizing the new way to produce vodka (by freezing
  • August 14 – in protest of the Stamp Act, Bostonians attack home of official Andrew Oliver
  • August 26 – in protest of the Stamp Act, Bostonians destroy home of lieutenant governor Thomas Hutchinson
  • September 6Jean-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 Stamp Act goes into effect in 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 de fé parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished.
  • Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto.
  • Desai Atash Behram was established in Navsari, India.

Ongoing events[]

  • War of the Regulation (17641771)

Births[]

1765 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1765
MDCCLXV
Ab urbe condita 2518
Armenian calendar 1214
ԹՎ ՌՄԺԴ
Assyrian calendar 6515
Bahá'í calendar -79–-78
Bengali calendar 1172
Berber calendar 2715
British Regnal year Geo. 3 – 6 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2309
Burmese calendar 1127
Byzantine calendar 7273–7274
Coptic calendar 1481–1482
Ethiopian calendar 1757–1758
Hebrew calendar 5525–5526
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1821–1822
 - 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)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4098
Minguo calendar 147 before ROC
民前147年
Thai solar calendar 2308
  • January 11Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (d. 1825)
  • February 1Charles Hatchett, English chemist (d. 1847)
  • March 7Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
  • March 27Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
  • April 1Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
  • April 6 – Duke Charles Felix of Savoy (d. 1831)
  • April 26Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (d. 1815)
  • June 15Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (d. 1831)
  • July 11Abigail Adams Smith, firstborn daughter of Abigail Adams and John Adams (d. 1813)
  • July 26Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d'Erlon, French marshal (d. 1844)
  • August 21 – King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
  • September 18Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1837)
  • October 8Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer (d. 1831)
  • October 17Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (d. 1818)
  • October 24James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (d. 1832)
  • November 14Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
  • November 17Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
  • November 20Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician (d. 1819)
  • December 8Eli 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 3William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
  • March 27Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina (b. 1689)
  • April 5Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
  • April 15Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)
  • April 20Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1681)
  • May 17Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
  • July 15Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
  • August 18Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
  • September 2Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
  • October 10Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
  • October 21Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
  • October 31Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
  • November 30George Glas, Scottish merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
  • December 3Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (b. 1713)
  • December 16Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born military officer and surveyor
  • December 25Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist (b. 1698)
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