1764

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Year 1764 (MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1764
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates
4 Trivia

[edit] Events of 1764

[edit] January - June

January 7 - Siculicidium: the Massacre at Madéfalva (Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary) where hundreds of innocent Székely people were murdered by the Austrians.
January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the United Kingdom House of Commons for seditious libel.

February 15 - The American city of St. Louis is established.
April 15 - Madame de Pompadour dies.

June 21 - The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. As of 2005, it is the oldest surviving newspaper in North America.
June 29 - A Level 5 tornado in Woldegk, Germany.

[edit] July - December

September 7 - Stanisław August Poniatowski was elected as the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

October - Battle of Buxar was a significant battle fought between the forces under the command of the British East India Company on the one side, and the combined armies of Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal ; Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor. The battle fought at Buxar, a town (currently in Bihar state, India) located on the bank of the Ganges river, was a decisive battle won by the forces of the East India Company.

The battle resulted into securing of Diwani rights to administer the collection and management of revenues of large areas which currently form parts of Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh , as well as of Bangladesh. The Battle of Buxar heralded the establishment of the rule of the East India Company in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.

November 9 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
November 16 - Chief Pontiac surrenders to the British.

[edit] Undated

The Sugar Act is levied.
The Royal Colony of North Carolina establishes a new county from the eastern portion of Granville County and names it Bute County for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain. In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.

[edit] Ongoing events

War of the Regulation (1764-1771).

[edit] Births

**1764 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1764 MDCCLXIV
Ab urbe condita	2517
Armenian calendar	1213 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-80 – -79
Buddhist calendar	2308
Chinese calendar	4400/4460-11-28 (癸未年十一月廿八日) — to — 4401/4461-12-9 (甲申年十二月初九日)
Ethiopian calendar	1756 – 1757
Hebrew calendar	5524 – 5525
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1819 – 1820
- Shaka Samvat	1686 – 1687
- Kali Yuga	4865 – 4866
Holocene calendar	11764
Iranian calendar	1142 – 1143
Islamic calendar	1177 – 1178
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 14 (宝暦14年) — changed to — Meiwa 1 (明和元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2424 (皇紀2424年)
- Jōmon Era	11764
Julian calendar	1809
Korean calendar	4097
Thai solar calendar	2307
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