From 1764 onwards, there was a gradual change from a slave-based society to one based on production for domestic consumption and export.

He was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and even obtained his license to practice law in 1764 before turning to a life of science.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

On March 3, 1764, a charter was filed to create the College in Warren, Rhode Island, reflecting the work of both Stiles and Manning.

The charter was renewed in 1742, 1764, and 1781.

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.

These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church ( until 1911 when it was revised ) but it was to influence the liturgy of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Christian Goldbach ( March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764 ) was a German mathematician who also studied law.

In 1764, of cotton-wool was imported.

A major contributor was Elihu Palmer ( 1764 – 1806 ), who wrote the " Bible " of American deism in his Principles of Nature ( 1801 ) and attempted to organize deism by forming the " Deistical Society of New York ".

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

By 1761 Reynolds could command a fee of 80 guineas for a full-length portrait ; in 1764 he was paid 100 guineas for a portrait of Lord Burghersh.

“ The Club ” was founded in 1764 and met in the suite of rooms on the first floor of the Turks Head, 9 Gerrard Street, now marked by a plaque.

Eventually, in 1764, he was introduced by Thomas Haweis to Lord Dartmouth, who was influential in recommending Newton to the Bishop of Chester, and who suggested him for the living of Olney, Buckinghamshire.

John Abernethy FRS ( 3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831 ) was an English surgeon.

Later, it was discovered that this symphony was actually the work of Abel, copied by the boy Mozart — evidently for study purposes — while he was visiting London in 1764.

In 1764, the first gravity railroad in the United States was built in Lewiston, New York.

In 2007, Jefferson's two-volume 1764 edition of the Quran was used by Rep. Keith Ellison for his swearing in to the House of Representatives.

* Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro ( 1676 – 1764 ) Spanish, was the most prominent promoter of the critical empiricist attitude at the dawn of the Spanish Enlightenment.

In its later years, the Hellfire was closely associated with Brooks's, established in 1764.

Unitarian Henry Ware ( 1764 – 1845 ) was appointed as the Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard College, in 1805.

In 1764, Lomonosov was appointed to the position of secretary of state.

Massachusetts appointed a five member Committee of Correspondence in June 1764 to coordinate action and exchange information regarding the Sugar Act, and in October 1764 Rhode Island formed a similar committee.

In 1764 he was promoted to colonel of the 46th Regiment of Foot, and in 1768 he was appointed lieutenant governor of the Isle of Wight.

Clinton was appointed Gloucester's Groom of the Bedchamber in 1764, a position he continued to hold for many years.

Count Johan August Sandels ( August 31, 1764 in Stockholm – January 22, 1831 ) was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Governor of Norway ( Riksståthållare in Swedish, Rigsstatholder in Dano-Norwegian ) 1818 and Field Marshal in 1824.

He was appointed collector of Burdwan in 1764 in place of Hastings, which resulted in a long-standing enmity.

In 1764 King Louis appointed d ' Estaing governor general of the French Leeward Islands, a post he held until 1766.

Buckingham was appointed a Teller of the Exchequer in 1764.

Owing to the friendship of an old messmate, who had become the governor's secretary, Rennell was appointed surveyor-general of the East India Company's dominions in Bengal, with a commission in the Bengal Engineers, dated 9 April 1764.

The two men were almost constantly in each other's company for the week-long visit, and a few months later ( 1818 ) Monroe appointed Bulfinch the successor to Benjamin Henry Latrobe ( 1764 – 1820 ) as Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D. C. ( The Capitol Building had been partially burned by the British in 1814.

On the death of the royal mistress in 1764, de Bernis was recalled and once more offered the seals of office, but declined them, and was appointed archbishop of Albi.

In 1764, he was appointed as a head of the cryptographic service of Russia, and held this position till 1797, during 33 years.

This explains why the Proprietors of Bristol's New Theatre appointed Bristol architect Thomas Paty to supervise construction of the " New Theatre " between 1764 and 1766.

His name first appears in the Ladies Diary ( a poetical and mathematical almanac which was begun in 1704, and lasted until 1871 ) in 1764 ; ten years later, he was appointed editor of the almanac, a post which he retained until 1817.

The following year he was also appointed justice of the peace, an office he held until 1764.

After the war he was appointed Colonel in 1764 when he led a force of 1, 400 to reinforce Fort Detroit in response to the outbreak of Pontiac's Rebellion.

In 1764 Vandelli moved to Portugal, where in 1765 he was appointed lecturer in chemistry and natural sciences at the University of Coimbra.

In 1764 he was appointed to the professorship of theology at Tyrnau in Hungary, but in 1771 he returned to Belgium and continued to discharge his professorial duties at Liege till the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.

One of the most notorious incidents of the latter part of the century was the trial and execution of " Nuncomar " or, more correctly, Nanda Kumar ( d. 1775 ), who had been the governor of Hughli in 1756. in 1764 he had been appointed collector of Burdwan in place of Warren Hastings, which resulted in a long-standing enmity between the two men.

He held a number of minor judicial appointments, including that of recorder of Maidenhead in 1758 and Newbury in 1764, before being appointed Regius Professor of civil law at Oxford in 1767, a chair he held until his death.

As a Member of Parliament and the son-in-law of Lord Bute, Percy was promoted to full colonel and appointed an aide-de-camp to the king in 1764, having barely reached his majority.

In 1764 he became private tutor to Alexander Kincaid, afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by whose influence he was appointed in 1768 to the rectorship of the High School on the retirement of Mr Matheson, whose substitute he had been for some time before.