1765
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1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
- 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
- May 18 - Fire destroys one quarter of town of Montreal, Quebec.
- June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.
- 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.
- 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
- The Isle of Man comes under the British crown
- Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto
Births
- 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)
- June 15 - Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (d. 1831)
- 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 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (d. 1832)
- November 14 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
- November 20 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician (d. 1819)
- December 8 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
- James Smithson, English-born minerologist and chemist (b. 1829)
- Peter Bagration, Russian general (d. 1812)
Deaths
- March 3 - William Stukeley, English antiquary (b. 1687)
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)
- May 17 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- August 18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
- October 31 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (b. 1721)
- December 25 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist (b. 1698)af:1765
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