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The year '''1765 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved several significant events.

==Astronomy==
* February 8 – [[Nevil Maskelyne]] becomes [[Astronomer Royal]] in [[England]].<ref name="People's Chronology">{{cite book|chapter=1765|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}</ref>

==Technology==
* May – [[James Watt]] makes a breakthrough in the development of the [[steam engine]] by constructing a model with a separate condenser.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{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]}}</ref>
* October 15 – [[Gribeauval system]] for manufacture of [[cannon]] introduced in [[France]] by royal decree.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[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==
* [[Copley Medal]]: Not awarded<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* March 7 – [[Nicéphore Niépce]], [[French people|French]] inventor (died [[1833 in science|1833]])
* November 14 – [[Robert Fulton]], [[Americans|American]] engineer (died [[1815 in science|1815]])
* December 8 – [[Eli Whitney]], American inventor (died [[1825 in science|1825]])

==Deaths==
* April 15 – [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], Russian scientist (born [[1711 in science|1711]])
* May 7 – [[Alexis Clairaut]], French mathematician (born [[1713 in science|1713]])
* September – [[Richard Pococke]], [[English people|English]] anthropologist and explorer (born [[1704 in science|1704]])
* December 25 – [[Václav Prokop Diviš]], [[Czech people|Czech]] theologian, natural scientist and pioneer in the field of electricity (born [[1698 in science|1698]])

==References==
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