Historical Events
- Feb 11 Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
- Feb 14 Dutch governor Falck and King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy sign Treaty of Batticaloa
- Mar 5 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Territory from the French
- Mar 8 Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces
- Mar 18 Britain repeals the Stamp Act, which had caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution
- Apr 8 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
- May 9 John Byron back in England after trip around the world
- May 22 Istanbul earthquake with estimated magnitude of 7.1, causes widespread extensive damage, followed by a significant tsunami
- Jul 9 British premier Marquess of Rockingham resigns
- Jul 18 Society of the Dutch Literary forms
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Would You Believe?Famous Weddings
- Nov 8 Future Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck (28) weds Dorothy Cavendish (16)
Famous People Who Died in 1766
- Jan 1 James Francis Edward Stuart "The old Pretender", Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland after the death of his father James II, dies at 77
- Jan 9 Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
- Jan 13 King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
- Jan 14 Frederik V, king of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
- Jan 19 Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect, dies at 70
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