1764 (MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1764th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 764th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1764, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
October 22: British East India Company defeats Mughal Empire and Allies in the Battle of Buxar.
1764 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1764
MDCCLXIV
Ab urbe condita2517
Armenian calendar1213
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Assyrian calendar6514
Balinese saka calendar1685–1686
Bengali calendar1171
Berber calendar2714
British Regnal yearGeo. 3 – 5 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2308
Burmese calendar1126
Byzantine calendar7272–7273
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4461 or 4254
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4462 or 4255
Coptic calendar1480–1481
Discordian calendar2930
Ethiopian calendar1756–1757
Hebrew calendar5524–5525
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1820–1821
 - Shaka Samvat1685–1686
 - Kali Yuga4864–4865
Holocene calendar11764
Igbo calendar764–765
Iranian calendar1142–1143
Islamic calendar1177–1178
Japanese calendarHōreki 14 / Meiwa 1
(明和元年)
Javanese calendar1689–1690
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4097
Minguo calendar148 before ROC
民前148年
Nanakshahi calendar296
Thai solar calendar2306–2307
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1890 or 1509 or 737
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
1891 or 1510 or 738

Events

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January–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Publications

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Births

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Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy
 
Princess Élisabeth of France

Deaths

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Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti
 
Tsar Ivan VI of Russia
 
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

References

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