1767
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This article is about the year 1767.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1730s 1740s 1750s – 1760s – 1770s 1780s 1790s |
| Years: | 1764 1765 1766 – 1767 – 1768 1769 1770 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1767 MDCCLXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2520 |
| Armenian calendar | 1216 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6517 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -77–-76 |
| Bengali calendar | 1174 |
| Berber calendar | 2717 |
| British Regnal year | 7 Geo. 3 – 8 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2311 |
| Burmese calendar | 1129 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7275–7276 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年十二月初一日 (4403/4463-12-1) — to —
丁亥年十一月十一日(4404/4464-11-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1483–1484 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1759–1760 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5527–5528 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1823–1824 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1689–1690 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4868–4869 |
| Holocene calendar | 11767 |
| Iranian calendar | 1145–1146 |
| Islamic calendar | 1180–1181 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiwa 4 (明和4年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4100 |
| Minguo calendar | 145 before ROC 民前145年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2310 |
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Year 1767 (MDCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- January 1 – The Nautical Almanac for the first time gives mariners the means to find their longitude while at sea, using tables of lunar distances.
- January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront.
- June 18 – First confirmed sighting of Tahiti by a European, Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain.[1]
[edit] July–December
- July 3
- Pitcairn Island is first definitely sighted by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
- Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is first published.
- August 26 – Construction begins on Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. The construction proves more expensive than initially expected, leading the government to increase local taxes. This stirs resentment among some North Carolinians and helps prolong the War of the Regulation.
- Autumn – North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky, in defiance of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several Native American tribes.
[edit] Births
- January 1 – Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist (d. 1849)
- January 5 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's Law (d. 1832)
- March 15 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
- March 25 – Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (d. 1815)
- April 25 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
- May 12 – Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
- May 15 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur & politician (d. 1843)
- July 4 – Kyokutei Bakin, Japanese author (d. 1848)
- July 11 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
- July 28 – James A. Bayard (elder), U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1815)
- August 25 – Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary (d.1794)
- September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Brazilian composer (d. 1830)
- October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
- November 2 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1820)
- November 22 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian national hero (d. 1810)
- date unknown
- Bernhard Meyer, German physician and ornithologist (d. 1836)
- Black Hawk, Sauk Indian Chief and autobiographer b. Saukenuk village (now Rock Island, Illinois) (d. 1838)
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (b. 1703)
- January 22 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (b. 1719)
- March 7 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
- March 13 – Maria Josepha, dauphine of France (b. 1731) (tuberculosis)
- April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)
- May 26 – Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia (b. 1747) (smallpox)
- May 28 – Maria Josepha of Bavaria (b. 1739) (smallpox)
- June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- September 4 – Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
- October 15 – Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (b. 1751) (smallpox)
- October 16 – Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Russian military leader (b. 1683)
- December 1 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
- December 22 – John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
- December 28 – Emerich de Vattel, Swiss philosopher (b. 1714)
- date unknown
- Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (b. 1679)
- Blas María de la Garza Falcón, Spanish settler of Texas (b. 1712)
[edit] References
- ^ Collingridge, Geo. (1903). "Who Discovered Tahiti?". Journal of the Polynesian Society 12: 184–186. http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_12_1903/Volume_12,_No.3,_September_1903/Who_discovered_Tahiti%3F_by_Geo._Collingridge,_p184-186.
