1766

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

Events

• January 1 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism.
• 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.
• November 10 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
• 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 Stanislas Leszczyncki
• The Burmese begin to invade the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya.
• What is now England's oldest surviving Georgian Theatre constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.

Births

• February 14 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (d. 1834)
• April 22 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, French author (d. 1817)
• July 8 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
• August 6 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
• September 6 - John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
• October 23 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
• November 2 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
• December 3 - Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in Civil War (d. 1862)

Deaths

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