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Year 1767 (MDCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1767

Tahiti & Pitcairn Island are sighted.

January–June

• January 1 – The Nautical Almanac for the first time gives mariners the means to find their longitude while at sea, using tables of lunar distances.
• January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront.
• May 13 - First performance of Mozart's first true opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus.
• June 19 – Jean Chastel kills the infamous Beast of Gévaudan by firing 2 silver bullets at it, believing it to be a werewolf. The Beast's Reign of Terror began in 1764.
• June 18 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• June 29 – The Townshend Acts are passed by British Parliament, placing a tax on common products, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea.

July–December

• July 3
  • Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
  • Norway's oldest newspaper, still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).

1767: Ayutthaya.

• August 26 – Construction begins on Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. The construction proves more expensive than initially expected, leading the government to increase local taxes. This stirs resentment among some North Carolinians and helps prolong the War of the Regulation.
• Autumn - North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky, in defiance of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several Native American tribes.

Undated

• The Burmese army captures the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, and destroys the city.
• American whalers venture into the Antarctic for the first time, and begin to commercially exploit it.
• The first known competition of winter sport biathlon takes place, in Norway.
• Suppression of the Society of Jesus occurs in the Spanish Empire.
• Construction begins on the Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex in Chengde, China, under the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
• The African slave Kunta Kinte arrives in Annapolis, Maryland.

Biathlon.

Ongoing events

• War of the Regulation (1764–1771).
• First Anglo-Mysore War (1766–1769)
• Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada) (1740–1779)
• Exile of John Wilkes in France (1764–1768)

Births

• January 1 – Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist (d. 1849)
• January 5 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's Law (d. 1832)
• March 15 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
• March 25 – Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (d. 1815)
• April 25 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
• May 12 – Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
• May 15 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur & politician (d. 1843)
• July 4 – Kyokutei Bakin, Japanese author (d. 1848)
• July 11 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
• July 28 – James A. Bayard (elder), U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1815)
• August 25- Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary (d.1794)
• September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Brazilian composer (d. 1830)
• October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
• November 22 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian national hero (d. 1810)
• date unknown
  • Bernhard Meyer, German physician and ornithologist (d. 1836)
  • Black Hawk, Sauk Indian Chief and autobiographer b. Saukenuk village (now Rock Island, Illinois) (d. 1838)

Deaths

• January 7 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (b. 1703)
• January 22 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (b. 1719)
• March 7 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
• March 13 – Maria Josepha, dauphine of France (b. 1731) (tuberculosis)
• April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)
• May 26 – Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia (b. 1747) (smallpox)
• May 28 – Maria Josepha of Bavaria (b. 1739) (smallpox)
• June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
• September 4 – Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
• October 15 – Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (b. 1751) (smallpox)
• October 16 – Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Russian military leader (b. 1683)
• December 1 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
• December 22 – John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
• December 28 – Emerich de Vattel, Swiss philosopher (b. 1714)
• date unknown
  • Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (b. 1679)
  • Blas María de la Garza Falcón, Spanish settler of Texas (b. 1712)

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