* In 1764 William Harrison ( the son of John Harrison ) sailed aboard the HMS Tartar, with the H-4 time piece.

Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper.

* 1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( b. 1683 )

* 1684 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( d. 1764 )

* November 10 – William Hogarth, English artist ( d. 1764 )

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

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.

The architect of the Second Bank of the United States was William Strickland ( 1788 – 1854 ), a former student of Benjamin Latrobe ( 1764 – 1820 ), the man who is often called the first professionally-trained American architect.

* William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 )

* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone

* Sir Sidney Smith ( Royal Navy officer ) ( William Sidney Smith, 1764 – 1840 ), British admiral

William was a Congregational minister and presided over his daughter's wedding in 1764.

William Hogarth ( 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764 ) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

* Lieutenant William Cox ( 1764 – 1837 ), Australian pioneer born in Wimborne.

* William Eaton ( 1764 – 1811 ), military adventurer during the Barbary Wars.

The town was founded by William Gilliland in 1764 who surveyed an area in the southern part of the town and was granted ; he also established the neighboring towns of Elizabethtown and Willsboro.

After William's death in 1764, the villa passed to his and Charlotte's orphaned young son, William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

William Cavendish died in 1764, leaving the property to his son William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

It derives its name from Gen. William Eaton ( 1764 – 1811 ), the U. S. Consul at Tunis, who led a diverse army in a harrowing march from Egypt to Tripoli to meet the U. S. Naval forces.

In 1764, Stiles played an influential role in the establishment of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ) by contributing substantially to the drafting of its charter and by serving with thirty-five others-including Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Samuel Ward, the Reverend John Gano, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend Samuel Stillman, and the Reverend James Manning-as a founding fellow or trustee.

While advising the Board of Trade on August 30, 1764, Sir William Johnson expressed that

Three years later, William Card's grandsons ( Jonathan Card's two young sons ), Thomas ( 1762 – 1850 ) and Jonathan ( 1764 – 1836 ), would serve in Colonel Herrick's Vermont regiment on the " Yankee " or Patriot lines during 1780 / 1.

* William McMillan, ( 1764 – 1804 ), born in Abingdon, lawyer.

* Castle Hill, 1764, Albemarle County -- home of Thomas Walker ( explorer ) and William Cabell Rives

Hogarth died in London on 26 October 1764 and was buried at St. Nicholas's Churchyard, Chiswick Mall, Chiswick, London.

* William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), British painter, engraver, pictorial satirist and cartoonist

William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ) painted his portrait as Bishop of Winchester and " Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter " about 1743, etched by Bernard Baron ( 1696 – 1762 ).

* William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 )

His portrait was painted and etched by William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ).

Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

Illustration for the score of the original Vienna version of Orfeo ed Euridice ( published in Paris, 1764 )

Newton describes the event in his autobiography, An Authentic Narrative ( published 1764 ), and thereafter marked the anniversary of his conversion as a day of thanks-giving.

Cesare Beccaria, an Italian lawyer, published in 1764 " An Essay on Crimes and Punishments ", in which he argued that torture unjustly punished the innocent and should be unnecessary in proving guilt.

Another edition of the Lineae tertii ordinis was published in Paris in 1797 ; another edition of the Methodus differentialis in London in 1764 ; and a translation of the latter into English by Halliday in London in 1749.

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.

These studies were later published as Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia in 1764.

" He published his great work On Crimes and Punishments, in Italian Dei delitti e delle pene in 1764.

Other works by Lardner are A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Revelation, with Notes and Observations ( 4 volumes, quarto, 1764 – 1767 ); The History of the Heretics of the two first Centuries after Christ, published posthumously in 1780 ; and a considerable number of occasional sermons.

Toup's reputation was established by his Emendationes in Suidam, the first part of which was published in 1760, the second part in 1764, and the third part in 1766.

Besides these, he published more than a hundred smaller works, many of which have been collected in the three following publications: Opuscula oratoria ( 1762 ); Opuscula philologica et critica ( 1764 ); Opuscula theologica ( 1773 ).

In 1764 Beccaria published a brief but justly celebrated treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenment.

He wrote several articles for Diderot's Encyclopédie, published an essay on " Luxury " in 1764, brought out an edition of The Seasons with a selection of his other poetry and some short stories in 1769, and completed a multi-volume philosophical work in 1797-98, called Principe des mœurs chez toutes les nations ou Catéchisme universel ( Principle of morals among all nations, or universal catechism ).

Winckelmann's masterpiece, the Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (" The History of Art in Antiquity "), published in 1764, was soon recognized as a permanent contribution to European literature.

He published two more works, The Select Fables of Aesop translated by R. D. ( 1764 ) and the Works of William Shenstone ( 3 vols., 1764 – 1769 ).

In November 1764 a pamphlet by Hopkins entitled The Rights of Colonies Examined, was published by the Rhode Island General Assembly.

The Needles from Isaac Taylor's " one inch map " of Hampshire, published in 1759, showing Lot's Wife, the needle-shaped pillar that collapsed in a storm in 1764.

Modern theories of the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders are broadly based on principles articulated in the seminal pamphlet " On Crimes and Punishments " published by Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria in 1764.

In the event, the Indian rhinoplasty technique perdured in nineteenth-century Western European medicine ; in Great Britain, Joseph Constantine Carpue ( 1764 – 1846 ) published the Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose ( 1815 ), which described two rhinoplasties: the reconstruction of a battle-wounded nose, and the repair of an arsenic-damaged nose.

Juan de Abreu Galindo ( in a manuscript translated and published by George Glas in 1764 ) gives the native name of the island as Esero ( or Eseró ), meaning ' strong '.

Around the mid 18th century, the forms and styles of English country parish music were introduced to America, notably in a new tunebook called Urania, published 1764 by the singing master James Lyon.

The Hartford Courant, founded in 1764, is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.