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1767| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1760–1770 | North America [statistics and demography] | The estimated population of the North American colonies is 1,593,625 including 325,806 black slaves. | | 1766–1777 | UK [canals] | English engineer James Brindley begins work on the Grand Trunk Canal linking the Trent and Mersey rivers. It crosses the Pennines by the Harecastle tunnel and will establish a water route between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. | | c. 1767 | UK [cricket] | The Hambledon Club, the first great cricket club, is formed near the village of Hambledon in Hampshire, England. | | 1767 | America [weights and measures] | English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their demarcation of the Pennsylvania–Maryland border. Hereafter known as the Mason–Dixon line, the border will distinguish slave states from free. | | 1767 | England [painting] | The English artist Joseph Wright of Derby paints An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump. | | 1767 | Italy [biology] | Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani disproves Georges Buffon's theories of the spontaneous generation of life by preserving organic material in vials sealed by fusing the glass. | | 26 June - 2 July 1767 | America [legislation] | The British Parliament adopts the Townshend Acts, taxing all glass, lead, paper, paints, and tea imported to the American colonies. To ensure compliance, the acts establish a Board of Customs Commissioners in Boston, a city becoming notorious for its recalcitrance. |
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