What is 1765?
{{Year nav|1765}} {{Year in various calendars|1765}} {{Year article header|1765}} == Events == * The first true [[restaurant]] opens in [[Paris]], where a [[tavern]]-keeper named '''Boulanger''' sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the [[Rue Bailleul]] * [[Nicholas Cugnot]] pioneers the [[automobile]] with a three-wheel gun tractor * [[James Watt]] supersedes the [[1705]] [[Newcomen engine]] with a more effective [[steam engine]] * In [[Lisbon]], the ''[[auto-da-fé]]'' parade (often an excuse for violence against [[Jew]]s or [[Christianity|Christian]] [[heresy|'heretics']]) is abolished * [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Josef II]] becomes [[Holy Roman Emperor]] * [[Horace Walpole]] publishes ''The Castle of Otranto'' * The birth of [[Mary Bryant]], one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony. {{births}} {{deaths}} [[Category:1765| ]]