1765

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  • The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul
  • Nicholas Cugnot pioneers the automobile with a three-wheel gun tractor
  • James Watt supersedes the 1705 Newcomen engine with a more effective steam engine
  • In Lisbon, the auto-da-fe parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished
  • Josef II becomes Holy Roman Emperor
  • Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto
  • The birth of Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony.

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