Editing 1767 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Suppression of the Society of Jesus|Suppression of the Jesuits begins]], in the [[Spanish Empire]] and [[Kingdom of Naples]].
* [[April 7]] &ndash; Troops of the Burmese [[Konbaung dynasty]] sack the Siamese city of [[Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (city)|Ayutthaya]], ending the [[Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67)]] after 15 months, and bringing the four-century-old [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]] to an end.  King [[Ekkathat]] is found dead inside the city walls on April 9.<ref>"Legacy or Overhang: Historical Memory in Myanmar–Thai Relations", by Maung Aung Myoe, in ''Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia'' (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015) p113</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; A fleet of ships from the [[Republic of Genoa]] arrives at Capraia and sends 150 men ashore to drive out the Corsicans, but the outnumbered Genoese marines are "quickly cut to pieces".<ref name=Renwick/>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet]], acting on behalf of Great Britain, meets with representatives of the Six Nations of the [[Iroquois Confederacy]] at [[German Flatts, New York]], opening negotiations on the boundary between the New York colony and the Native Americans, eventually concluded by the [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]].<ref>''The Papers of Sir William Johnson'', ed. by James Sullivan (University of the State of New York, 1921) p xxx</ref>  
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Ahmed al-Ghazzal]], the emissary from Sultan [[Mohammed ben Abdallah]] of [[Morocco]] to the [[Spanish Empire]], makes a triumphant return to [[Marrakesh]] with almost 300 Muslims who had been held captive in Spain, as well as sacred Islamic manuscripts that had been seized by the Spanish in 1612.  The negotiation of the release had started with al-Ghazzal's meeting with Spain's King Carlos III on August 21, 1766.<ref>Abdulrahman al-Ruwaishan translator and Travis Landry, editor, ''The Fruits of the Struggle in Diplomacy and War: Moroccan Ambassador al-Ghazzal and His Diplomatic Retinue in Eighteenth-Century Andalusia'' (Bucknell University Press, 2016) pp9-10</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; The Genoese island of [[Capraia]] is conquered by the Corsican Army after a ten-week campaign.<ref name=Renwick/>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; British [[Royal Navy]] Captain [[Samuel Wallis]] becomes the first European to visit the island of [[Tahiti]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]], during [[HMS Dolphin (1751)#Second circumnavigation|HMS ''Dolphin'''s second circumnavigation]];<ref>{{cite book|title=Les Grands Explorateurs|editor=Laneyrie-Dagen, Nadeije|publisher=Larousse|year=1996|isbn=2-03-505305-6|page=181}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_12_1903/Volume_12,_No.3,_September_1903/Who_discovered_Tahiti%3F_by_Geo._Collingridge,_p184-186|journal=Journal of the Polynesian Society|volume=12|year=1903|title=Who Discovered Tahiti?|first=Geo.|last=Collingridge|pages=184–186}}</ref> he also sights [[Mehetia]].