1764 events

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1764-67

Founding of German colonies along the Lower Volga River

Uruguayan independence leader Jose Gervasio Artigas is born (1764)
American engineer Eli Whitney is born (1765)
The 17 volume "Encyclopedia: The Rational Dictionary of the Sciences, the Arts and the Crafts," a seminal work of the Enlightenment, is published (1765)
Thomas Malthus, English economist best known for the theory that population growth will always outpace food production necessitating reproduction control, is born (1766)

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