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Events from the year 1764 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Events
- 19 January - John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton.[1]
- 5 April - Parliament passes the Sugar Act.[2]
- 19 April - The Currency Act passed which prohibits the American colonies from issuing paper currency of any form.[1]
- August - protests begin in Boston, Massachusetts against Britain's colonial policies.[1]
- 22 October - Deposed Nawab of Bengal Mir Qasim defeated at the Battle of Buxar by the British East India Company.[1]
Undated
- Specific and latent heats are described by Joseph Black.[3]
- Industrial Revolution: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.[4]
- Landscape gardener Capability Brown redesigns the gardens of Blenheim Palace.[4]
Births
- 13 March - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
- 3 April - John Abernethy, surgeon (d. 1831)
- 5 May - Robert Craufurd, general (d. 1812)
- 21 June - Sidney Smith, admiral (d. 1840)
- 5 July - Daniel Mendoza, boxer (d. 1836)
- 9 July - Ann Radcliffe, author (d. 1823)
Deaths
- 6 March - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1690)
- 17 March - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer (born c. 1696)
- 29 June - Ralph Allen, businessman and politician (born 1693)
- 7 July - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, politician (born 1683)
- 2 September - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (born 1700)
- 23 September - Robert Dodsley, writer (born 1703)
- 2 October - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister (born 1720)
- 26 October - William Hogarth, painter and satirist (born 1697)
- 4 November - Charles Churchill, poet and satirist (born 1731)
References
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 322–323. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ The American Revenue Act of 1764
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ a b Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
See also
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