Events from the year 1765 in France.
Incumbents Monarch: Louis XV
Events École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort founded The Hennessy cognac house founded
Births 11 January – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian (died 1825) 7 March – Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer (died 1833) 26 July – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, marshal (died 1844) 4 August – Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary 1 September – Étienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair (died 1856) 15 October – Joseph Dutens, engineer (died 1848) 17 November – Jacques MacDonald, marshal (died 1840) 3 December – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825)
Full date unknown James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States (died 1829 in Italy)
Deaths
23 February – Jean Girard, organist (born 1696) 15 April – Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess (born 1705) 29 June – François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect (born 1725) 5 September – Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters (born 1692) 26 September – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (born 1683) 20 December – Louis, Dauphin of France (born 1729)
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