1764 in Great Britain

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1764 English cricket season

Events from the year 1764 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - George Grenville, Whig

[edit] 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]

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• 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]

[edit] Births

• 13 March - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1845)
• 3 April - John Abernethy, surgeon (died 1831)
• 5 May - Robert Craufurd, general (died 1812)
• 25 May - John Mason Good, writer (died 1827)
• 19 June - Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, author and statesman (died 1848)
• 21 June - Sidney Smith, admiral (died 1840)
• 5 July - Daniel Mendoza, boxer (died 1836)
• 9 July - Ann Radcliffe, author (died 1823)

[edit] 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)

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