1765 in science
The year 1765 in science and technology involved several significant events.
Astronomy
- February 8 – Nevil Maskelyne becomes Astronomer Royal in England.
Technology
- May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser.
- October 15 – Gribeauval system for manufacture of cannon introduced in France by royal decree.
- 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 in Florence.
Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded
Births
- March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor
- November 14 – Robert Fulton, American engineer
- December 8 – Eli Whitney, American inventor
Deaths
- April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist
- May 7 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician
- September – Richard Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer
- December 25 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian, natural scientist and pioneer in the field of electricity