1766

• English economist Thomas Malthus.
• English chemist John Dalton.
• English composer Samuel Wesley.
• English chemist and physicist William Wollaston.
• English geologist John Farey.
• Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh
• French author Anne Louise Germaine Necker later Madame de Staël-Holstein.
• French poet Antoine Vincent Arnault.
• English composer Thomas Roseingrave.
• American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.
• Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, thief of the friezes from the Parthenon in Athens.

• English typographer William Caslon.
• Isabella Farnese, queen of Spain 1714-1746, mother of King Charles III of Spain.
• Scottish poet and essayist James Grainger
• King Frederik V of Denmark.
• Stanislas Leszczynski, Duke of Lorraine and one-time King of Poland.

• William Pitt makes a remarkable speech to Parliament against the Stamp Act
• Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but issues a Declaratory Act stating that the Colonies do not have a right to form assemblies of their own.
• Pitt forms a coalition government, becoming prime minister for the second time.
• Spain officially takes control of Louisiana with the arrival of its first governor, Antonio de Ulloa.
• the Trent-Mersey canal allows water travel all the way across England.
• A border war breaks out between Burma and China.

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