1764 (MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1764th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 764th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1764, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1730s 1740s 1750s – 1760s – 1770s 1780s 1790s |
| Years: | 1761 1762 1763 – 1764 – 1765 1766 1767 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1764 MDCCLXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2517 |
| Armenian calendar | 1213 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6514 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1685–1686 |
| Bengali calendar | 1171 |
| Berber calendar | 2714 |
| British Regnal year | 4 Geo. 3 – 5 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2308 |
| Burmese calendar | 1126 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7272–7273 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4460 or 4400 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4461 or 4401 |
| Coptic calendar | 1480–1481 |
| Discordian calendar | 2930 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1756–1757 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5524–5525 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1820–1821 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1685–1686 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4864–4865 |
| Holocene calendar | 11764 |
| Igbo calendar | 764–765 |
| Iranian calendar | 1142–1143 |
| Islamic calendar | 1177–1178 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōreki 14 / Meiwa 1 (明和元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1689–1690 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4097 |
| Minguo calendar | 148 before ROC 民前148年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 296 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2306–2307 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1890 or 1509 or 737 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1891 or 1510 or 738 |
- March 13 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
- September 25 – Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty (d. 1793)
- April 15 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (born 1721)
- November 20 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (born 1690)
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