Today in History for Year 1764

Months in Year 1764: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

Jan 24th - Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
Feb 15th - St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
Feb 21st - John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
Apr 3rd - Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
May 5th - Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
Jul 23rd - James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
Oct 15th - 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 9th - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
Nov 16th - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
Nov 26th - France bans Jesuit enorde

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 40 of 40

Jan 1st - John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet (Minderjarige Zangster)
Feb 4th - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy
Feb 8th - Joseph Leopold von Eybler, Austrian composer
Feb 11th - Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus)
Feb 13th - Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster
Feb 15th - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
Feb 22nd - Alexander Campbell, composer
Feb 28th - Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist
Mar 13th - Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
Apr 3rd - John Abernethy, London, surgeon
Apr 12th - Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland
Apr 13th - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
Apr 18th - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer
May 1st - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
May 1st - Gottfried Rieger, composer
May 3rd - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI
May 5th - Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)
May 15th - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
May 20th - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
May 26th - Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
Jun 19th - John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
Jun 19th - Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
Jun 21st - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
Jul 1st - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer
Jul 5th - Janos Lavotta, composer
Jul 9th - Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (Italian)
Aug 13th - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
Aug 20th - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
Aug 22nd - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
Sep 11th - Valentino Fioravanti, composer
Sep 15th - Friedrich Heine, composer
Sep 15th - Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
Sep 17th - John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
Sep 25th - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
Oct 14th - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
Nov 5th - Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist (Newton)
Nov 30th - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
Dec 7th - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
Dec 10th - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
Dec 22nd - Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Oct 25th - 2nd American President John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Mar 6th - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
Mar 17th - George Parker, English astronomer, dies
Mar 30th - Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68
Apr 14th - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84
Apr 15th - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) of tuberculosis aged 42
Apr 17th - Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82
Apr 27th - Jaime de Casellas, composer, dies at 73
May 3rd - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53
May 10th - Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
Jun 3rd - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69
Jun 11th - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
Jun 29th - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
Jul 7th - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
Jul 16th - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
Jul 17th - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
Jul 23rd - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
Sep 2nd - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
Sep 12th - Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80
Sep 23rd - Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
Sep 26th - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
Oct 2nd - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Oct 22nd - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
Oct 23rd - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
Oct 26th - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
Nov 20th - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies
Nov 30th - Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61