January 20 –Burmese–Siamese War: Outside of the walls of the Thailand capital ofAyutthaya, tens of thousands of invaders fromBurma (under the command of General Ne Myo Thihapate and General Maha Nawatra) are confronted by Thai defenders led by General Phya Taksin.[3] The defenders are overwhelmed and the survivors take refuge inside Ayutthaya. The siege continues for 15 months before the Burmese attackers collapse the walls by digging tunnels and setting fire to debris. The city falls on April 9, 1767, and KingEkkathat is killed.[4]
February 5 – An observer inWilmington,North Carolina reports to theEdinburgh newspaperCaledonian Mercury that three ships have been seized by British men-of-war, on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps. The strict enforcement causes seven other ships to leave Wilmington for other ports.
February 15 – Protesting against theStamp Act 1765, members of the New York CitySons of Liberty travel to Pennsylvania and set fire to a British supply of tax stamps before the stamps can be taken to distributors in the province of Maryland.[5]
February 20 – ThePennsylvania Gazette reports that a British sloop off Wilmington, North Carolina, has seized a sloop sailing fromPhiladelphia, and another sailing fromSaint Christopher, on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps. In response, local residents threaten to burn a Royal Man-of-War attempting to deliver stamps to Wilmington, forcing the ship to return to the mouth of the Cape Fear River.
March 18 –American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals theStamp Act, which has been very unpopular in the British colonies; the persuasion ofBenjamin Franklin is considered partly responsible. TheDeclaratory Act asserts the right of Britain to bind the colonies in all other respects.[6]
African slaves are imported directly into the American colony ofGeorgia for the first time, as the sloopMary Brow arrives inSavannah with 78 captives imported fromSaint-Louis, Senegal.[8]
American botanistJohn Bartram completes his first exploration and cataloging of North American plants after more than nine months.[9]
May 29 – In a paper read to theRoyal Society, British theoretical chemistHenry Cavendish first describes his process of producing what he refers to as "inflammable air" by dissolving base metals such as iron, zinc and tin in a flask of sulfuric acid orhydrochloric acid, drawing the conclusion that the vapor that was released is different from air. Seven years later, French chemistAntoine Lavoisier bestows the name "hydrogen" on the gas.[11]
June 4 – On the occasion of the 28th birthday of KingGeorge III, members of theSons of Liberty in Manhattan erect aliberty pole as a protest for the first time. The historic symbol, a tall "wooden pole with aPhrygian cap" is placed "on the Fields somewhere between Broadway and Park Row".[12] British soldiers cut down the pole in August.
August 10 – During the occupation of New York, members of the 28th Foot Regiment of the British Army chop down the liberty pole that was erected by the Sons of Liberty on June 4. The Sons of Liberty put up a second pole the next day, and that pole is cut down on August 22.[13]
August 13 – A hurricane sweeps across the French island colony ofMartinique, killing more than 400 people and destroying the plantation owned by Joseph-Gaspard de La Pagerie, the father of the future FrenchEmpress Joséphine.[14]
September 1 – The revolt inQuito (at this time part of Spain'sViceroyalty of Nueva Granada; the modern-day capital ofEcuador) is ended peacefully as royal forces enter the city under the command ofGuayaquil Governor Pedro Zelaya. Rather than seeking retribution from the Quito citizens over their insurrection that has broken the monopoly over the sale of the liquoraguardiente, Zeleaya oversees a program of reconciliation.[15]
September 23 –John Penn, the Colonial Governor of Pennsylvania and one of the four Penn family owners of the Pennsylvania land grant, issues a proclamation forbidding British American colonist residents from building settlements on lands in the west "not yet purchased of the Nations" of theIroquois Indians.[17]
October 4 – Thekingdom of France formally cedes its rights to the Malouines Islands to Spain. On March 24, Spain renames the islands the Malvinas, and in 1833, the United Kingdom re-colonises the recently abandoned territory and renames it theFalkland Islands.[19]
November 27 – A British sloop-of-war is searching all vessels passing nearCape Lookout, North Carolina, and some vessels have been seized, according to an observer in New York City, in theProvince of New York, reporting to thePennsylvania Gazette.
^Clodfelter, Micheal (2017).Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015. McFarland. p. 116.
^Myoe, Maung Aung (2015). "Legacy or Overhang: Historical Memory in Myanmar–Thai Relations".Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 113.
^Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015). "Sons of Liberty".Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States. Routledge. p. 289.
^Rodriguez O., Jaime E. (2018).Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830. University of Nebraska Press. p. 62.
^"Yugoslavia".The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1936. Macmillan and Co. 1936. p. 1388.
^Kenny, Kevin (2011).Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment. Oxford University Press. p. 210.
^Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015).World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence. London: Routledge. p. 633.
^Laver, Roberto C. (2001).The Falklands/Malvinas Case: Breaking the Deadlock in the Anglo-Argentine Sovereignty Dispute. Martinus Nijhoff.
^Gullick, J. M. (2004).A History of Selangor. Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.ISBN9679948102.
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