15th » Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter (Capitoline Hill) named Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'.
Famous Deaths for October 1764
2nd » William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
23rd » Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1683)
26th » William Hogarth, English painter and engraver (b. 1697)