Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research on electricity in the 18th century, as documented by Joseph Priestley ( 1767 ) History and Present Status of Electricity, with whom Franklin carried on extended correspondence.

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

Joseph Priestley, then living in Leeds, became associated with the Society in 1767 when Darwin and Wedgwood became involved with his work on electricity.

* 1767 — Joseph Priestley proposes an electrical inverse-square law

It was first settled in 1767 by Joseph Patch.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

In 1767 Joseph Priestley invented carbonated water when he first discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide when he suspended a bowl of water above a beer vat at a local brewery in Leeds, England.

Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).

Joseph François Michaud ( 19 June 1767 – 30 September 1839 ) was a French historian and publicist.

The Symphony No. 39 is a symphony in G minor ( Hoboken 1 / 39 ) by Joseph Haydn in 1767 or 1768.

Beginning with conferences hosted by Shawnees in 1767, in the following decades leaders such as Joseph Brant, Alexander McGillivray, Blue Jacket, and Tecumseh would attempt to forge confederacies that would revive the resistance efforts of Pontiac's War.

Louis François Joseph had two illegitimate children, born in 1761 and 1767, by Marie Anne Véronèse, known as Mademoiselle Coraline, previously a dancer at an Italian theatre.

Jean Joseph Paul Augustin, Marquis Dessolles ( 3 July 1767, Auch, Gers – 3 November 1828, Saulx-les-Chartreux, Essonne ) was a French statesman.

In 1767 he brought out the first edition of his only published work, an Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare ( Cambridge ), addressed to his friend and schoolfellow, Joseph Cradock of Gumley.

Pease was born on 31 May 1767, the eldest son of the Darlington woollen manufacturer Joseph Pease and his wife, Mary Richardson.

Joseph Foveaux ( 1767 – 20 March 1846 ) was a soldier and convict settlement administrator in colonial New South Wales, Australia.

Foveaux was baptised on 6 April 1767 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, the sixth child of Joseph Foveaux and his wife Elizabeth, née Wheeler.

Although neither Priestley nor Watt were to move to Birmingham for several years, both were to be in constant communication with the Birmingham members and central to the circle's activities from 1767.

of cotton, among which was the invention ( 1767 ) of the " spinning jenny " which was invented in nearby Oswaldtwistle by James Hargreaves, who died in 1770.

Employing his skills as a mechanical engineer, he devised a water engine for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1761 and a watermill at Alston, Cumbria in 1767 ( he is credited by some for inventing the cast iron axle shaft for waterwheels ).

Thomas Cogan, another English physician, who had become interested in the same subject during a stay at Amsterdam, where was instituted in 1767 a society for preservation of life from accidents in water, joined Hawes in his crusade.

Two contractors were appointed in October 1767, but gave up, and were replaced by a partnership between James Pinkerton and James Dyson, who ultimately built the whole canal, including a culvert in Driffield to provide a water supply.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

In addition to these four regional cuisines, there is also the Thai Royal Cuisine which can trace its history back to the cosmopolitan palace cuisine of the Ayutthaya kingdom ( 1351 – 1767 CE ).

His mother, who had never recovered from the loss of her husband, died on 13 March 1767, also from tuberculosis.

Lower Alloways Creek Township was formed on June 17, 1767 when Alloways Creek Township was subdivided and Upper Alloways Creek Township ( now Alloway Township ) was also formed.

Ayutthaya (, RTGS: Anachak Ayutthaya, also Ayudhya, ) was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767.

His father was the enormously wealthy financier Judah Herz Beer ( 1769 – 1825 ) and his mother, Amalia ( Malka ) Wulff ( 1767 – 1854 ), to whom he was particularly devoted, also came from the moneyed elite.

He also founded several literary periodicals: The Museum ( 1746 – 1767, 3 vols.

They also constructed the Temple of the New Company, which would become the Cathedral, however they never finished it as they were expelled from Mexico in 1767.

See also: 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, list of years in literature.

He was succeeded as 3rd Earl by his younger brother, who was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1766 to 1767.

Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp ( June 26, 1703 – January 7, 1767 ), was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator.

The Mason-Dixon line, which officially established the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, would have also settled the Virginia-Pennsylvania boundary dispute, but the surveying of the final miles of the Mason-Dixon line was abandoned in 1767 and would not be completed until 1784.

The emerging Swedish textile industry was also threatened by the trade, so that the new company soon promised to refrain from shipping textiles: of sixty-one successfully returning voyages between 1733 and 1767, only three ( of 1735, 1740 and 1742 ) carried cotton and silk textiles, and raw silk from Bengal.

A few later composers also set Lucchini's libretto, among them Josef Mysliveček, whose opera Farnace of 1767 was perhaps the best written after Vivaldi's setting.

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson ( also given as Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Triosson, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson ) January 5, 1767 – December 9, 1824 ), was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings.

He also bought the lease of the theatre from Potter's executors and, having added to the site by purchasing adjoining property, he enlarged and improved the building which he opened on May 14, 1767, as the Theatre Royal, the third patent theatre in London.

In 1767, Tussaud and her mother joined Curtius and also moved to Paris.

He also served as a clerk in the colony of Rhode Island in 1767.

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum ( 5 November 1767 – 14 February 1841 ), also called Graf Lottum ( Count Lottum ), was a Prussian infantry general and minister of the State.

And by the order of Charles III the Jesuits were suppressed and expelled from the Kingdom of Naples in 1767, a move in which Tanucci was in general sympathy with other progressive ministers at the Bourbon courts, as Aranda in Spain, Choiseul in France, du Tillot in Parma, and also with Pombal in Portugal.

His father, who was also named William Price ( 1761 -), was an ordained priest in the Church of England who had studied at Jesus College, Oxford, whilst his mother, Mary Edmunds ( 1767 – 1844 ), was an uneducated Welshwoman who had been a maidservant prior to her marriage.

It was published not only in Boston, but also in London in 1752 and again in 1767.

Don Manuel Francisco Domingo de Godoy ( di Bassano ) y Álvarez de Faria, de los Ríos y Sánchez-Zarzosa, also Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria de los Ríos Sánchez Zarzosa ( May 12, 1767 – October 4 / 7, 1851 ), was Prime Minister of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and from 1801 to 1808.

In 1767 the troupe was sold to a consortium of private owners, called the Hamburg National Theatre or the Hamburgische Entreprise, also known as Lessing's Dramaturgie, with Abel Seyler as its main backer.