Governor Charles Hutchinson ( 1747 – 1764 ) tackled the neglect of crops and livestock and also brought the laws of the island closer to those in England.

* July 17 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1764 )

* February – Charles Churchill, English poet ( d. 1764 )

The first planetary nebula discovered was the Dumbbell Nebula in the constellation of Vulpecula, observed by Charles Messier in 1764 and listed as M27 in his catalogue of nebulous objects.

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

An Austrian contingent from the Main joined the Saxons under Field Marshal Rutowsky ( 1702 – 1764 ), and a combined movement was made in the direction of Berlin by Rutowsky from Saxony and Prince Charles from Bohemia.

# Charles de Saint-Albin, dit l ' Abbé d ' Orléans, Archbishop of Cambrai, legitimized in 1706 ( Paris, 1698-Paris, 1764, bur Paris )

Named for Lord Charles Townshend, this settlement survived and was incorporated November 3, 1764.

Under Durell, the future statesman Charles James Fox matriculated in 1764 ( Hertford, unusually for Oxford, was a Whig College ).

After the Revolution of 1688 which overthrew James II, there were Jacobite risings in the British Isles ; some Riponmen were jailed in February 1764 upon " suspicion of corresponding with Prince Charles Edward Stuart ".

This settlement was the condition of his marriage on 5 August 1764 with Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain, daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony.

* Charles Philip Yorke ( 1764 – 1834 ), British politician

Portrait by Charles Clive, c. 1764

Charles Percier (; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838 ) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days.

Charles Mason ( Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, April 1728 – Philadelphia, October 25, 1786 ) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States ( 1764 – 1768 ).

* Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville ( 1712 – 1764 ), Irish peer

The Dumbbell Nebula ( M27 ), is a large, bright planetary nebula which was discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764 as the very first object of its kind.

M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC ( 13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845 ), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834.

* E. A. Smith, " Grey, Charles, second Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Charles Lamb ( 10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834 ) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb ( 1764 – 1847 ).

* Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 )

* Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 )

* General Lord Charles FitzRoy ( 14 July 1764 – 20 December 1829 ), who married, firstly, Frances Mundy ( 1773 – 9 August 1797 ) on 20 June 1795, and had one son.

They were said to arrive in present-day Upshur County in 1764 and took up living in a huge hollow of an American sycamore.

Debate in the colonies over the Stamp Act had actually begun in the spring of 1764 when Parliament passed a resolution that contained the assertion, " That, towards further defraying the said Expences, it may be proper to charge certain Stamp Duties in the said Colonies and Plantations.

The royal order of July 26, 1764 affirmed that " the Western bank of the Connecticut, from where it enters the province of Massachusetts Bay as far north as the 45th degree of northern latitude, to be the boundary line between the said two provinces of New Hampshire and New York.

The construction of a water powered cotton mill by Ralph Taylor at Thorp Clough in 1764, is said to be the first structure of its kind.

Norman Davies notes that " in 1764, when only thirteen electors were killed, it was said that the Election was unusually quiet.

In his Contemplation de la nature ( Amsterdam, 1764 – 1765 ; translated into Italian, German, English and Dutch ), one of his most popular and delightful works, he sets forth, in eloquent language, the theory that all the beings in nature form a gradual scale rising from lowest to highest, without any break in its continuity.

* 1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet ( d. 1811 )

* Letters Written from the Mountain, 1764 ( Lettres de la montagne )

* 1811 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet ( b. 1764 )

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* March 1 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal ( b. 1764 )

* March 17 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal ( b. 1764 )

* December 29 – Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France ( d. 1764 )

* Madame de Pompadour ( 1721 – 1764 ): the famous mistress and longtime favorite of King Louis XV

* Valentin Roeser ( 1764 ): Essai de l ' instruction à l ' usage de ceux, qui composent pour la clarinet et le cor.

The most famous of Louis's mistresses were the sisters of Mailly-Nesle ( four of the five sisters were king's mistresses, notably Louise-Julie, Comtesse de Mailly from 1738 to 1742 and Marie Anne, Duchesse de Châteauroux in 1743-44 ); Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour ( called Madame de Pompadour, the official mistress from 1745 to 1764 ); and Marie Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry ( official mistress from 1768 until the king's death in 1774 ).

The parti philosophique was supported by the marquise de Pompadour, who acted as a sort of minister without portfolio from the time she became royal mistress in 1745 until her death in 1764.

" Later, he embarked upon a lifelong love affair with the beautiful Louise de Polastron ( 1764 – 1804 ), the sister-in-law of Marie Antoinette's closest companion, the Duchess of Polignac.

It was then introduced to the Réunion Island in 1764 by Joseph-François Charpentier de Cossigny de Palma.

* Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant ( 1764 – 1853 ), politician

Besides numerous minor works, wrote a Théorie générale des équations algébriques, published at Paris in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation: he used determinants in a paper in the Histoire de l ' académie royale, 1764, but did not treat the general theory.

Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire a Frenchman from Lyons, France and some other Frenchmen, from Mobile arrived in late 1763 / early 1764.

Between the arrivals of the two groups, the French captain Etienne de Vaugine came in 1764 and acquired a large domain east of Bayou Teche.

The first of such institutions only trained the Artillery and Military Engineering officiers, like the Aula da Artilharia ( founded in 1641 ) and the Aula de Fortificação ( 1647 ) in Lisbon, the Real Accademia di Savoia in Turin ( opened in 1678 ), the Imperial Artillery Military Academy of Saint Petersburg ( 1698 ), the Royal Military Academy Woolwich ( 1741 ), the Real Colegio de Artilleria in Segovia ( 1764 ).