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Events and People Who Made History in the Year 1764 AD
January
January 24: Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
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February
February 15: St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
February 21: John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
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April
April 3: Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
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May
May 5: Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls
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July
July 23: James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
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October
October 25: John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years
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November
November 16: Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
November 26: France bans Jesuit enorde
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