* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )

* February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )

Settlement commenced in 1767, the year Barnstead was incorporated as a town by Governor John Wentworth.

First granted in 1767 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain who had recently led Britain to victory in the Seven Years War.

The town was granted as Stonington in 1761 to John Hogg and others by Governor Benning Wentworth, and first settled in 1767 by Thomas Burnside and Daniel Spaulding.

In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina ( 1765 — 1771 ), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of western North Carolina, traveled to the area and negotiated peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a location near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain ( renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers ).

The original grants for this area, issued by the Royal Governor of New York in 1767 and 1772, were for two towns.

In 1767 he became the colonel of his county's militia and Governor John Wentworth appointed him justice of the peace.

With his soldiers he moved to Chantaburi, and being rebuffed by the Governor of the town for his friendly overtures, he made a surprise night attack on it and captured it on June 15, 1767, only two months of after the sack of Ayutthaya.

Needless to say, Hsinbyushin of Burma never abandoned his plan to force Siam to its knees, and as soon as he had been informed of the foundation of Thonburi as King Taksin's capital, he commanded the Governor of Tavoy to subjugate him in 1767.

Amid increased furor after the passage of the 1767 Townshend Acts, Governor Bernard requested and received military troops to protect crown officials.

His prominence in these debates prompted the Royal Governor Francis Bernard to revoke his military commission in 1767.

For failure to comply with the Quartering Act, Parliament suspended the Province of New York's Governor and legislature in 1767 and 1769, but never carried it out, since the Assembly soon agreed to contribute money toward the quartering of troops ; the New York Assembly allocated funds for the quartering of British troops in 1771.

The upper Green on Elm is bordered by " Quality Row ", containing some of the oldest structures in New Haven: the federal style white clapboard Nicholas Callahan house, once a tavern ( now the Yale Elihu Senior Society ), the federal Eli W. Blake House ( now the Graduate Club ), the federal John Pierpont house ( now the Yale University Visitor Center ) built in 1767 and the brick Greek Revival Governor Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll House, designed in 1829 by Town and Davis ( future home of Dwight Hall, the student community service organization at Yale ).

* Caleb Rodney ( 1767 – 1840 ), merchant and Governor of Delaware

In 1767, the Pennsylvania Assembly, with Governor Thomas Penn's assent, had authorized a Supreme Court justice ( always a lawyer ) to sit with local justices of the peace ( judges of county courts, but laymen ) in a system of Nisi Prius courts.

In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, and whom he induced to present him to a Church in the island then vacant, and was ordained in 1769.

Governor Michael Franklin reported that by January 1, 1767, there were eleven American already living on the Peninsula.

Governor Franklin ’ s return, by 1767 there were also 62 English living on the Aspotogan.

* John Ford ( minister ) ( 1767 – 1826 ), American political and religious ( Methodist ) leader in South Carolina ( two terms in state legislature ) and Mississippi Territory

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 to John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams ( née Smith ) in Braintree, Massachusetts, what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.

* American President: John Quincy Adams ( 1767 – 1848 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

* 1767 – John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States ( d. 1848 )

His new enthusiasm for Evangelicalism, his ' Conversion ', his and his move to Olney in 1767 brought him into contact with John Newton.

It was realised as early as 1767 that the stars in a clusters were physically related, when the English naturalist Reverend John Michell calculated that the probability of even just one group of stars like the Pleiades being the result of a chance alignment as seen from Earth was just 1 in 496, 000.

* John Quincy Adams ( b. 1767 ), sixth president of the United States

The first arguments were delivered on 30 June 1767, with John Dunning representing Millar and Edward Thurlow representing Taylor.

Image: 4thDukeOfArgyll. jpg | John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll ( 1767 )

* February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States ( b. 1767 )

* April 10 – John ' Merino ' MacArthur, Australian farmer ( b. 1767 )

* John, Prince of Brazil ( 1767 – 1826 ) served as regent of Portugal for his mother Queen Maria I, who had become mentally unfit to rule, from 1799 to 1816.

John Michell was the first to suggest that double stars might be physically attached to each other when he argued in 1767 that the probability that a double star was due to a chance alignment was small.

The Reverend John Michell calculated in 1767 that the probability of a chance alignment of so many bright stars was only 1 in 500, 000, and so correctly surmised that the Pleiades and many other clusters of stars must be physically related.

* 1767 – John Kay invents the spinning frame.

John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, succeeded in 1753, and in 1767 he married Mary Eleanor Bowes, heiress to a coal-mining fortune.

* Botanist John Lightfoot ( 1735-1788 ) lived in Uxbridge from 1767 and is buried in Cowley

* John Vernon Henry ( 1767 – 1829 ), American politician, New York State Comptroller

* John Quincy Adams ( 1767 – 1848 )

On the map of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, drawn in 1767 by John R. Bleecker, there are many names associated with leased parcels, especially in the western part of the town and in Haynersville.

Barrackville was founded in 1767 by William " Indian Billy " Ice and named in honor of an early settler, John Barrack.

In 1767, weary of the squabbling, the Porte issued a firman that divided the church among the claimants.

The first published score of Messiah was issued in 1767, eight years after Handel's death, though this was based on relatively early manuscripts and included none of Handel's later revisions.

When in 1767 this modernised British Parliament, committed by now to the principle of parliamentary sovereignty unlimited and unlimitable, issued a declaration that a parliamentary majority could pass any law it saw fit, it was greeted with an out-cry of horror in the colonies.

Uncertainty about the legality of writs of assistance issued by colonial superior courts prompted Parliament to affirm that such writs were legal in the 1767 Townshend Acts.

Catesby's " Hortus britanno-americanus ..." was published posthumously in 1763, and a second edition, entitled " Hortus Europae americanus ..." was issued in 1767.

He was on the committee of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, which issued a pamphlet in 1755 proposing the formation of an academy of art, and he exhibited drawings at the Society of Artists ' exhibition in 1767, and afterwards for some years at the Royal Academy.

Heberden, who was also a classical scholar, published several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ; and among his noteworthy contributions to the Medical Transactions ( issued, largely at his suggestion, by the College of Physicians ) were papers on chickenpox ( 1767 ) and angina pectoris ( 1768 ).

In response, Maria Theresa issued her Urbarium of 1767 to protect the serfs by restoring their freedom of movement and limiting the corvée.

In the year 1767, his writings in belles lettres were issued in six volumes, edited by his half brother, J. C. Bökman.

Such was Louis Bourguet ( 1678 – 1743 ), who, besides his geological works, founded two periodicals which in different ways did much to stimulate the intellectual life of the Suisse Romande ; these were the Bibliothèque italique ( 1729 – 1734 ), which aimed at making more widely known the results of Italian research, and the Mercure suisse which, first issued in 1732, lasted till 1784, under different names ( rom 1738 onwards the literary section bore the name of Journée helvetique ), and secured contributions from most of the leading writers of the Suisse Romande of the day, such as Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ), Abraham Ruchat ( 1678 – 1750 ), and others.

A precursor of Montesquieu and of Rousseau was Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui ( 1694 – 1750 ) in his Principes du droit naturel et politique ( 1747 and 1751, issued together in 1763 ), while the celebrated international lawyer, Emeric de Vattel ( 1714 1767 ), was a native of Neuchâtel by birth and descent, and, though he spent most of his life at foreign courts, died at Neuchâtel, not so very long after the publication of his famous Droit des gens ( 1758 ).