1765

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 (MDCCLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

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.

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