1765

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s  1740s  1750s  – 1760s –  1770s  1780s  1790s
Years:	1762 1763 1764 – 1765 – 1766 1767 1768

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1765 (MDCCLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1765th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 765th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1765, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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-fé 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.

Births

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1765 Media

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  August 16: The Treaty of Allahabad is signed.

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  Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

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  William IV of the United Kingdom

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  Fulton

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  • This portrait is a copy of the original work by G. Prenner. Image from description page

Deaths

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