1766

1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg after touring Paris and London with his father
• Christian VII becomes King of Denmark
• Lorraine becomes French again on the death of Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland
• The Burmese begin to invade the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya.
• What is now England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.
• Childsburgh, the Orange County, North Carolina county seat laid out as Churton Town in 1754 and renamed in 1759, is renamed Hillsborough in honor of Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough.

January

• January 1 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism.

February

March

• March 5 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• March 18 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act which was very unpopular in the British colonies. The persuasion of Benjamin Franklin is considered partly responsible. The Declaratory Act asserts the right of Britain to bind the colonies in all other respects.

April

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August

September

October

November

• November 10 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).

December

Ongoing events

• War of the Regulation (1764-1771)

Births

• February 14 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (died 1834)
• April 6 - Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Legion D'honneur, French Mathematician and Scholar
• April 22 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, French author (died 1817)
• May 30 - Robert Darwin, Medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (died 1848
• July 8 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)
• August 6 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (died 1828)
• September 6 - John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (died 1844)
• October 23 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (died 1847)
• November 2 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (died 1858)
• December 3 - Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in Civil War (died 1862)

Deaths

• January 1 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (born 1688)
• January 9 - Thomas Birch, English historian (born 1705)
• January 13 - King Frederick V of Denmark (born 1723)
• January 19 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)
• January 21 - James Quin, English actor (born 1693)
• February 5 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (born 1705)
• February 23 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (born 1677)
• April 4 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (born 1704)
• April 7 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (born 1685)
• May 5 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684)
• May 8 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (born 1693)
• June 24 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (born 1678)
• July 9 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (born 1720)
• July 11 - Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (born 1692)
• July 14 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (born 1674)
• September 3 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (born 1686)
• September 13 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (born 1704)
• November 9 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (born 1692)
• December 12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (born 1700)

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