1765

1765 (MDCCLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1765th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 765th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1765, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s  1740s  1750s  – 1760s –  1770s  1780s  1790s
Years:	1762 1763 1764 – 1765 – 1766 1767 1768

1765 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1765 MDCCLXV
Ab urbe condita	2518
Armenian calendar	1214 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	6515
Balinese saka calendar	1686–1687
Bengali calendar	1172
Berber calendar	2715
British Regnal year	5 Geo. 3 – 6 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2309
Burmese calendar	1127
Byzantine calendar	7273–7274
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4461 or 4401     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4462 or 4402
Coptic calendar	1481–1482
Discordian calendar	2931
Ethiopian calendar	1757–1758
Hebrew calendar	5525–5526
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1821–1822
- Shaka Samvat	1686–1687
- Kali Yuga	4865–4866
Holocene calendar	11765
Igbo calendar	765–766
Iranian calendar	1143–1144
Islamic calendar	1178–1179
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 2 (明和２年)
Javanese calendar	1690–1691
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4098
Minguo calendar	147 before ROC 民前147年
Nanakshahi calendar	297
Thai solar calendar	2307–2308
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1891 or 1510 or 738     — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1892 or 1511 or 739

Events

• The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul
• Nicholas Cugnot pioneers the automobile with a three-wheel gun tractor
• James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with a more effective steam engine
• In Lisbon, the auto-da-fé parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished
• Josef II becomes Holy Roman Emperor
• Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto
• The birth of Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony.

Births

for more information, see Category:1765 births.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1765 deaths.