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Gregorian calendar | 1765 MDCCLXV |
Ab urbe condita | 2518 |
Armenian calendar | 1214 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԴ |
Assyrian calendar | 6515 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1686–1687 |
Bengali calendar | 1172 |
Berber calendar | 2715 |
British Regnal year | 5 Geo. 3 – 6 Geo. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 2309 |
Burmese calendar | 1127 |
Byzantine calendar | 7273–7274 |
Chinese calendar | 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4462 or 4255 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4463 or 4256 |
Coptic calendar | 1481–1482 |
Discordian calendar | 2931 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1757–1758 |
Hebrew calendar | 5525–5526 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1821–1822 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1686–1687 |
- Kali Yuga | 4865–4866 |
Holocene calendar | 11765 |
Igbo calendar | 765–766 |
Iranian calendar | 1143–1144 |
Islamic calendar | 1178–1179 |
Japanese calendar | Meiwa 2 (明和2年) |
Javanese calendar | 1690–1691 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4098 |
Minguo calendar | 147 before ROC 民前147年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 297 |
Thai solar calendar | 2307–2308 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1891 or 1510 or 738 — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1892 or 1511 or 739 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1765 MDCCLXV |
Ab urbe condita | 2518 |
Armenian calendar | 1214 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԴ |
Assyrian calendar | 6515 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1686–1687 |
Bengali calendar | 1172 |
Berber calendar | 2715 |
British Regnal year | 5 Geo. 3 – 6 Geo. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 2309 |
Burmese calendar | 1127 |
Byzantine calendar | 7273–7274 |
Chinese calendar | 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4462 or 4255 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4463 or 4256 |
Coptic calendar | 1481–1482 |
Discordian calendar | 2931 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1757–1758 |
Hebrew calendar | 5525–5526 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1821–1822 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1686–1687 |
- Kali Yuga | 4865–4866 |
Holocene calendar | 11765 |
Igbo calendar | 765–766 |
Iranian calendar | 1143–1144 |
Islamic calendar | 1178–1179 |
Japanese calendar | Meiwa 2 (明和2年) |
Javanese calendar | 1690–1691 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4098 |
Minguo calendar | 147 before ROC 民前147年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 297 |
Thai solar calendar | 2307–2308 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1891 or 1510 or 738 — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1892 or 1511 or 739 |
1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
- 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
- Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto
- The birth of Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony.
January
February
March
- 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
April
May
June
- June 21 - The Isle of Man is brought under British control.
July
August
September
- September 21 - Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan.
October
November
- 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.
December
Ongoing events
Births
- January 11 - Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (d. 1825)
- February 1 - Charles Hatchett, English chemist (d. 1847)
- March 7 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
- March 27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
- April 1 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
- April 6 - Duke Charles Felix of Savoy (d. 1831)
- April 26 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (d. 1815)
- June 15 - Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (d. 1831)
- July 26 - Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d'Erlon, French marshal (d. 1844)
- August 21 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
- September 18 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1837)
- October 8 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer (d. 1831)
- October 17 - Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (d. 1818)
- October 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (d. 1832)
- November 14 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
- November 17 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
- November 20 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician (d. 1819)
- December 8 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
- James Smithson, English-born minerologist and chemist (b. 1829)
- Peter Bagration, Russian general (d. 1812)
Deaths
- March 3 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
- April 5 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
- April 15 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)
- April 20 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
- May 17 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- July 15 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
- August 18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
- September 2 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
- October 10 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
- October 21 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
- October 31 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
- November 30 - George Glas, Scottish merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
- December 3 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (b. 1713)
- December 25 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech scientist (b. 1698)