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1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1764th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 764th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1764, the ...
Specific and latent heats are described by Joseph Black. [5]Industrial Revolution: James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny. [6]Holkham Hall, Norfolk, completed in the Palladian style by William Kent.
Outbreak of the French and Indian War; colonial militias play a role; Virginia planter, Col. George Washington makes a name for himself as a military leader; Albany Congress, the first time in the 18th century that American colonial representatives meet to discuss some manner of formal union; attempts to gain Iroquois support (June 18–July 11)
15 February – Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor in British West Africa (died 1824). 24 April – Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer, politician and United Irishman (died 1827 in the United States).
Events from the year 1764 in France. Incumbents. Monarch: Louis XV [1] Events. March ...
On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania in what is now Franklin County, near the present-day city of Greencastle. Inside were the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and a number of young students.
This article is a summary of literary events and publications during 1764. Events January ...
Long title: An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in Africa, for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an act in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, (initituled, An act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty's sugar colonies in America) for applying the produce of such duties, and of the ...