1765 in science
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The year 1765 in science and technology involved several significant events.
Astronomy
Technology
- May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/323 323]}}
- October 15 – Gribeauval system for manufacture of cannon introduced in France by royal decree.{{cite book|last=Chartrand|first=René|year=2003|title=Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815|volume=1|isbn=1-84176-458-2|location=Oxford|publisher=Osprey Publishing|page=7}}
- Timișoara Fortress construction completed by the Habsburg Empire.
Zoology
- Saverio Manetti begins publication of his Storia naturale degli uccelli, trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate ("Natural History of the Birds, treated systematically and adorned with copperplate engraving illustrations, in miniature and life-size") in Florence.
Awards
Births
- March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)
- November 14 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (died 1815)
- December 8 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (died 1825)
Deaths
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist (born 1711)
- May 7 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (born 1713)
- September – Richard Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer (born 1704)
- December 25 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian, natural scientist and pioneer in the field of electricity (born 1698)