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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
March 7
-
Nicéphore Niépce
-
French
inventor
March 27
-
Franz Xaver von Baader
- A German philosopher and theologian.
April 1
-
Luigi Schiavonetti
-
Italian
engraver
April 6
- Duke
Charles Felix of Savoy
June 15
-
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
,
English
orientalist
August 21
- King
William IV of the United Kingdom
.
September 18
- Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, the later
Pope Gregory XVI
October 8
-
Harman Blennerhassett
, Irish-American lawyer
October 24
-
James Mackintosh
,
Scottish
publicist
November 14
-
Robert Fulton
- inventor, perfected the steamboat.
December 8
-
Eli Whitney
,
American
inventor
Charles Hatchett
, English chemist who discovered
niobium
.
James Smithson
, founder of the
Smithsonian Institute
Peter Bagration
-
Russian
general
Deaths
March 3
-
William Stukeley
,
English
antiquary
April 15
-
Mikhail Lomonosov
,
Russian
author and scientist
May 17
-
Alexis Claude Clairault
,
French
mathematician
August 18
-
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
(b.
1708
)
October 31
-
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
December 25
-
Vaclav Prokop Divis
,
Czech
scientist
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