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1764
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Gorgonzola
Wed Oct 18 2000 at 23:40:37
Born in 1764:
English
novelist
Ann Radcliffe
, the founder of the
Gothic
horror/romance
genre
.
English-born American
architect
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
.
French
composer
Helene de Montgeroult
.
Scottish-born
Canadian
explorer
Alexander Mackenzie
.
Jose Gervasio Artigas
, learder of
Uruguay
an independence.
Died in 1764:
French
composer
and
violinist
Jean-Marie Leclair
.
English
artist
William Hogarth
.
French composer
Jean-Phillipe Rameau
.
German
mathematician
Christian Goldbach
(known for his famous
conjecture
).
German composer
Johann Mattheson
.
Italian composer
Pietro Antonio Locatelli
.
Events of 1764:
The
lighthouse
in
Sandy Hook, NJ
lit for the first time. Still operating today, it is the oldest continously-operating lighthouse in the
United States
.
The British
Parliament
passes the
Sugar Act
, increasing duties on non-British goods shipped to its American colonies, and the
Currency Act
, prohibiting the colonies from issung their own currency.
French fur traders
Pierre Laclede
and
Auguste Chouteau
found the settlement of
St. Louis
near the junction of the
Mississippi
and
Missouri River
s.
Mir Kasim
enlists the
Nawab
of
Patna
in an attempt to take
Bengal
back from the British. At the
Battle of Buxar
, British Major
Hector Munro
defeats the consolidated army. The British begin collecting land revenue in Bengal,
Bihar
and
Orissa
after this battle.
François-Marie Arouet
; aka
Voltaire
, publishes his
Dictionnaire philosophique
("Philosophical Dictionary").
Horace Walpole
has a
nightmare
which becomes his
novel
,
The Castle of Otranto
.
Catherine the Great
, Empress of
Russia
, purchases the art collection of
Johann Ernest Gotzkowski
. This is the
nucleus
of what would later become the
Hermitage Museum
.
James Hargreaves
invents the
Spinning Jenny
.
1763
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1764
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1765
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chaos
1765
1763
Henry Bilson-Legge
William Hogarth
Gothic novel
Ann Radcliffe
Catherine the Great
James Hargreaves
Battle of Buxar
Rudjer Boskovic
Stephen Van Rensselaer III
Niels Klim's Subterranean Journey
The Castle of Otranto
American History
Horace Walpole
1815
Goldbach's conjecture
Nawab
chess
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