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 ("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

Births

 * March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)
 * November 14 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (died 1815)
 * December 8 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (died 1825)

Deaths

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