1766

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

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 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).

February 14 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (d. 1834)
April 6 - Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Legion D'honneur, French Mathematician and Scholar (d. unknown)
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)

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