February 17 » Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
June 1 » Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
June 2 » Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
July 30 » Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
November 21 » The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
December 4 » The Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War.
February 6 » The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery.
July 27 » A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
Day of death May 7, 1764
The temperature on May 7, 1764 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: weerlicht. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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