Editing 1764 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; The [[Siculicidium]] is carried out as hundreds of the [[Székelys|Székely]] minority in [[Transylvania]] are massacred by the [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian Army]] at Madéfalva.<ref>Derek Beales, ''Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe'' (I.B.Tauris, 2005) p163</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[John Wilkes]] is expelled from the [[House of Commons of Great Britain]], for [[seditious libel]].<ref>Arthur Cash, ''John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty'' (Yale University Press, 2008) pp169-170</ref>
* [[February 15]] &ndash; The settlement of [[St. Louis]] is established.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1764 |title=Historical Events for Year 1764 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |date=September 28, 1764 |access-date=2017-06-22}}</ref>
* [[March 15]] &ndash; The day after his return to [[Paris]] from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar [[Anquetil Du Perron]] presents a complete copy of the [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] sacred text, the ''[[Zend Avesta]]'', to the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|''Bibliothèque Royale'']] in [[Paris]], along with several other traditional texts.<ref>''The Zend-Avesta'', translated by James Darmesteter (Clarendon Press, 1880) p xv</ref> In 1771, he publishes the first European translation of the ''Zend Avesta''.
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Francisco Javier de la Torre]] arrives in [[Manila]] to become the new Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines]].<ref>John Foreman, ''The Philippine Islands: A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule, with an Account of the Succeeding American Insular Government'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906) p97</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; After the British victory in the [[French and Indian War]], the first post-war British expedition to explore the newly acquired territories east of the [[Mississippi River]] comes under attack by [[Tunica people|Tunica]] warriors.  The 340 British Army men, under the command of Major Arthur Loftus, were at a spot south of [[Natchez, Mississippi]] and were forced to flee in their boats back toward the port of [[New Orleans]] while under fire from an unknown number of Tunicas firing from both banks.<ref>David Narrett, ''Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803'' (University of North Carolina, 2015) p34</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; Following lobbying by [[George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer)|George Johnstone]], the Governor of [[British West Florida]], Britain's [[Board of Trade|Lords of Trade]] vote to recommend the northern boundary for the new province to run from the confluence of the [[Yazoo River]] and the Mississippi (at modern-day [[Vicksburg, Mississippi]]) to the [[Chattahoochee River]] (at modern-day [[Phenix City, Alabama]]), and the Privy Council soon approves, bringing about {{convert|38000|sqmi|km2|}} under the West Florida's jurisdiction.<ref>David Narrett, ''Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803''  (University of North Carolina, 2015) p26</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; The [[prince-elector]]s, a group of nine German princes who select the next leader of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], vote for the last time as the health of the Emperor [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis I]] declines.  The electors (including Britain's King George III, who also rules as [[Elector of Hanover]]) approve Francis's son, [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Prince Joseph of Austria]] as [[King of the Romans]].  Upon the death of Francis in 1765, Prince Joseph becomes the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.  
* [[March 31]] &ndash; A [[Russo-Prussian alliance|mutual defense treaty]] between the [[Russian Empire]] and the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] is signed in [[Saint Petersburg]] between representatives of Russia's Empress [[Catherine the Great]] and Prussia's King [[Frederick the Great]].  By agreement, each nation agrees (for an eight-year period) to commit 10,000 soldiers and 2,000 horses to the defense of the other in case of an attack, and secretly agree to maintain security within the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].<ref>Brian L. Davies, ''The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016)</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; The [[Sugar Act]] is passed in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; Residents of [[French Louisiana]] are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule as the result of a secret agreement of November 13, 1762 whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.<ref>John B. Dillon, ''Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America'' (Robert Douglass Publishing, 1879) p322</ref> The Spanish, however, do not take possession until August 17, 1769.  
* [[April 27]] &ndash; Eight-year-old child prodigy [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] performs a private concert before King George III and Queen Charlotte in Great Britain, and has an encore on May 19.<ref>"Mozart's Organ Sonatas", by Orlando A. Mansfield, in ''The Musical Quarterly'' (Oct/Dec 1922) p570</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Baden, Switzerland|Baden]], one of the member states of the [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Confederation of Switzerland]], declares a policy of remaining neutral in future conflicts, a model that is soon followed by other members of the Confederation and which eventually becomes the basis for [[Swiss neutrality]] from 1815 onward.<ref>Gregory Fossedal, ''Direct Democracy in Switzerland'' (Routledge, 2018)</ref> 
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The English-language ''[[Quebec Gazette]]'' is established in [[Quebec City]], Canada (the oldest surviving newspaper in North America).
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[1764 Woldegk tornado|One of the strongest tornadoes]] ever recorded hits [[Woldegk]], [[Holy Roman Empire|Germany]].