History
1767
General
Population: 858 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Michael Bruce, Oliver Goldsmith (comedy), Lessing (comedy), Laurence Sterne, Moses Mendelssohn (souls),
JJ Winckelmann
Music includes Gluck "Alceste", Rousseau creates dictionary of music
- Science: Ilaf Bergman of Uppsala examines "chemical affinities"
Astronomer Royal Nevill Maskelyne issues "Nautical Almanac"
Joseph Priestly writes about electricity
Benjamin Franklin observes mammoth bones
- Technology: Electrical machine with glass pane becomes fashionable toy
- Deaths: Composer Geoerg Philipp Telemann
Americas
Asia
- India: Chaos in India – Robert Clive leaves the country
- Mysore: First Mysore War
- Thailand: (Siam) Burmese invade destroying Ayudhya and forcing Thais to accept Burmese dictatorship – Burmese repulse China from invading Thailand
Europe
- German States: Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach succeeds Geoerg Philipp Telemann as director of church music in Hamburg
- Great Britain: Rousseau settles in England – receives pension from George III
Allan Ramsay made court painter to George III
- Holy Roman Empire: Maria Theresa and Joseph II introduce educational reforms in Austria
- Italian States: Jesuits expelled
- Poland: Confederation of Bar as an anti-Russian association
- Russia: Russia and Turkey at war until 1774
- Spain: Jesuits expelled
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Russia and Turkey at war until 1774
Pacific
- Australia: James Cook explores east coast of Australia calling it New South Wales
- Tahiti: British Captain Samuel Wallis reaches Tahiti
General
- Finance: Taxes on imports (Townshend Act) of tea, glass, paper, and dyes in American colonies
- Law: Writs of Assistance (illegal searches) passed
- Science: Ben Franklin receives box of tusks and teeth and observes that these must have been elephants, but with different climate
East
- General: Mason-Dixon line established between Maryland and Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts: Protesting taxes, Boston agrees to non-importation
- New York: Assembly suspended for refusing to support quarting of troops