1767 in science

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The year 1767 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Agriculture

• Arthur Young publishes The farmer's letters to the people of England, containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman ... to which is added, Sylvæ, or, Occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics.

Exploration

• June 18 - English sea captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• July 3 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
• North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky - in defiance of a decree of George III of the United Kingdom. He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several Native American tribes.

Technology

• January 1 - The Nautical Almanac, published by the Royal Greenwich Observatory for the first time gives mariners the means to find their longitude while at sea, using tables of lunar distances.
• July 3 - First edition of Adresseavisen, Norway's oldest newspaper remaining in print, is published.
• Coldstream Bridge in Scotland, designed by John Smeaton, is opened, one of the first long (300 feet (90 m)) bridges with a flat deck.

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Ellis

Births

• March 6 - Davies Giddy, English promoter of science (died 1839)
• August 24 - Bernhard Meyer, German physician and ornithologist (died 1836)
• date unknown - Bewick Bridge, English mathematician (died 1833)

Deaths

• February 19 - François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, French physician and botanist (born 1706)
• date unknown - Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (born 1679)