Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s

Years: 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 - 1767 - 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• The Burmese invasion reaches the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, razing it.
• North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky - in defiance of a decree from King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several 'Indian' tribes.
• American Whalers venture into the Antarctic for the first time, and begin to commercially exploit it.
• Jean Jacques Rousseau settles in England.
• The first known competition of the winter sport biathlon takes place, in Norway
• The final volume of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern is published.

• 1767 in literature
• 1767 in science

• March 15 - Andrew Jackson, later 7th President of the United States
• July 11 - John Quincy Adams, later 6th President of the United States

• Firmin Abauzit - French scientist
• Georg Philipp Telemann

• 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)