1764

1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 19 - John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel
• February 15 - The American city of St. Louis is established.
• June 21 - The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. As of 2005, it is the oldest surviving newspaper in North America.

Births

• February 11 - Joseph Chénier, French poet (+ 1811)
• March 13 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• May 26 - Edward Livingston, jurist and statesman (+ 1836)

Deaths

• April 15 - Madame de Pompadour
• July 16 - former Tsar Ivan VI is murdered in prison.
• September 12 - Jean-Philippe Rameau composer
• October 25-26 - William Hogarth, English painter and engraver
• November 20 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician
• Ralph Allen