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Thu Oct 19 2000 at 2:31:52
Born in 1765:
Eli Whitney
, inventor of the
cotton gin
.
German
mathematician
Johann Freiderich Pfaff
.
Scottish
poet
James Grahame
.
Italian
mathematician
Paolo Ruffini
.
American inventor
Robert Fulton
.
English scientist
James Smithson
, whose later bequest to the
United States Government
would create the
Smithsonian Institution
.
The future
king
William IV
of
Great Britain
.
Joseph Nicéphore Niepce
, inventor of the first effective
photographic
process.
English poet
Mary Lamb
.
Died in 1765:
English
poet
Edward Young
.
German composer
Johann Melchior Molter
.
Italian
painter
Giovannni Paolo Pannini
.
Russian
chemist
Mihkail Lomonosov
.
Prince
William Augustus
, second son of
George II
, and third
duke of Cumberland
, infamous for suppressing the
Jacobite
rebellion at the Battle of
Culloden
.
Events of 1765:
The
British
Parliament
passes two acts which enrage American colonists:
The
Stamp Act
, requiring
American
colonists to pay a
tax
on every piece of printed paper.
The
Quartering Act
, requiring Colonial authotities to furnish barracks and supplies to British troops. It would be expanded in
1766
to include private houses.
The American colonists react:
Rioters in
Boston
destroy the house of
Thomas Hutchinson
,
Lieutenant Governor
of
Massachussetts
.
The
Virginia
House of Burgesses
passes several
resolution
s proposed by
Patrick Henry
against the Stamp Act.
An intercolonial assembly, called the
Continental Congress
, meets for the sole purpose of passing a resolution against the Stamp Act. It issues a
declaration of rights
on October 9.
Samuel Johnson
publishes his collection of
William Shakespeare
's plays.
James Watt
produces his first
steam engine
, an improvement on the
Newcomen steam engine
in use for 50 years.
After the crew of the
brigantine
Hope
mutinies and throws the captain overboard, the
slaves
they carry revolt against the crew, but fail to take over the ship.
In the
Treaty of Mobile
, the
Choctaw
and
Creek
Indians grant the British all of the land in
Florida
(containing parts of modern
Alabama
,
Mississippi
, and
Georgia
) south of the 31st
parallel
.
Robert Clive
returns to
India
as Royal Governor of
Bengal
.
1764
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1765
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1766
1764
1766
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
Stamp Act
Elbridge Gerry
18th century
James Smithson
Constitutional Convention of 1787
1500 meter run
The Castle of Otranto
cotton gin
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Preface to Shakespeare : 2
1710
William IV
Eli Whitney
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Choctaw
Basking shark
Smithsonian Institution
James Watt
Quartering Act
photographic