Historical Events
- Jan 24 Governor Winthrop's Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
- Feb 15 St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclède
- Feb 21 John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
- Apr 3 Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II
- Apr 5 British Parliament passes the Sugar Tax on the American colonies, introduced by Prime Minister George Grenville
- May 5 Smolny Institute forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
- Jul 23 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
- Oct 15 Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Nov 9 Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- Nov 16 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
World Leaders in 1764
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
George Grenville
British Prime Minister
Charles GreyFamous Weddings
- Aug 5 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (17) weds queen Maria Luisa of Spain (18) in Innsbruck, Austria
- Oct 25 Future 2nd American President John Adams (28) weds Abigail Smith (19) in Weymouth, Massachusetts (marriage lasts 54 years)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 6 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 73
- Mar 17 George Parker, English astronomer, dies
- Mar 30 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68
- Apr 14 Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84
- Apr 15 Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) of tuberculosis aged 42