Timeline October 1767

Events in October 1767 3

• 1767 Mason-Dixon survey of the Pennsylvania-Maryland line completed Astronomers finish marking the colonial boundary later known as the Mason-Dixon Line Astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed the main west survey line marking the disputed boundary between the Pennsylvania and Maryland colonies. Their precise astronomical survey settled decades of territorial dispute and later became a cultural symbol of the divide between northern and southern states.
• 1767 – 1844 Jacques Laffitte (1767-1844) Died 26 May 1844, aged 76 French banker and liberal politician who helped bring Louis-Philippe to the throne in 1830. He then served as his prime minister.
• 1767 – 1830 Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) Died 8 December 1830, aged 63 Constant was a Swiss-French political thinker and novelist whose writings on liberty and constitutional government influenced European liberalism. His novel Adolphe and his political essays argued for individual rights against both monarchical absolutism and revolutionary excess. He served briefly in the French Chamber of Deputies after the July Revolution.