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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years: 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763 - 1764 - 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769
Events
- January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel
- February 15 - The American city of St. Louis is established.
Year in topic
- 1764 in literature:
- The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
- The Hartford Courant - founded (as The Connecticut Courant)
- 1764 in science
Births
- February 11 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (+ 1811)
- March 13 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- May 26 - Edward Livingston, jurist and statesman (+ 1836)
Deaths
- October 25-26 - William Hogarth, English painter and engraver
- November 20 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician
Monarchs/Presidents
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
- Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)
