1767 - Definition and Overview

Events

• The Burmese army captures the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, and destroys the city.
• North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky - in defiance of a decree from King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several Native American tribes.
• American Whalers venture into the Antarctic for the first time, and begin to commercially exploit it.
• Jean Jacques Rousseau settles in England.
• The first known competition of the winter sport biathlon takes place, in Norway
• The final volume of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne is published.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his first true opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus.

Year in topic

• 1767 in literature
• 1767 in science
• 1767 in music

Births

• March 15 - Andrew Jackson, later 7th President of the United States
• July 11 - John Quincy Adams, later 6th President of the United States
• November 22 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero

Deaths

• Firmin Abauzit - French scientist
• June 25 - Georg Philipp Telemann

Monarchs/Presidents

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
• Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)