The year 1767 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Agriculture
Arthur Young publishes The farmer's letters to the people of England, containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman ... to which is added, Sylvæ, or, Occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics.
July 3 –
Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS Swallow (1766) by 15-year-old
Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on a British Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by
Philip Carteret, the first definite European sighting.
^Laneyrie-Dagen, Nadeije, ed. (1996). Les Grands Explorateurs. Larousse. p. 181.
ISBN2-03-505305-6.
^Collingridge, Geo. (1903).
"Who Discovered Tahiti?". Journal of the Polynesian Society. 12: 184–186.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 224–225.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^Champness, John (2005). Thomas Harrison: Georgian Architect of Chester and Lancaster 1744–1829. Centre for North-West Regional Studies,
University of Lancaster. p. 21.
ISBN1-86220-169-2.