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What Happened In Year 1764?

• January 19, 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• February 15, 1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
• October 15, 1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• November 9, 1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.

Who Were Born In The Year 1764?

• February 1, 1764 – George Duff, Royal Navy Captain, killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar (d.1805)
• February 11, 1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (d. 1811)
• March 13, 1764 – Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
• April 3, 1764 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831)
• April 13, 1764 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
• May 1, 1764 – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, English born American architect (d. 1820)
• May 3, 1764 – Elisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (d. 1794)
• May 5, 1764 – Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)
• May 26, 1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
• June 19, 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
• June 21, 1764 – Sidney Smith, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1840)
• July 9, 1764 – Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (d. 1823)
• August 13, 1764 – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
• August 22, 1764 – Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
• September 25, 1764 – Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
• December 7, 1764 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)

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