1764

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

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Events

• January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel
• February 15 - The American city of St. Louis is established.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1764 in literature:
  • The Castle of Otranto[?] - Horace Walpole

Births

• February 11 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier[?], French poet (+ 1811)
• March 13 - Charles Grey, second 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