* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion ( d. 1766 )

* 1766 – Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence ( d. 1861 )

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

* 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic ( b. 1685 )

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

* Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

* 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* Robert Waring Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin

* 1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English demographer and political economist ( d. 1834 )

* 1693 – James Quin, English actor ( d. 1766 )

John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) noted a weakness in the views of Amontons and Coulomb.

* 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer ( d. 1766 )

* Frederick V of Denmark ( 1723 – 1766 ), king of Denmark and Norway

In 1766 – 81, Henry Cavendish was the first to recognize that hydrogen gas was a discrete substance, and that it produces water when burned, a property which later gave it its name: in Greek, hydrogen means " water-former ".

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

* 1704 – John Taylor, English scholar ( d. 1766 )

* 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator ( d. 1813 )

With the death of the last Duke Stanislas in 1766, the duchy became a French province and Nancy remained its capital.

* August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano ( b. 1766 )

The region became French following the death in 1766 of the Duke of Lorraine, and in 1769 Louis XV had the Jesuit Academy transferred to Nancy.

This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse ( 1761 – 1826 )— who was also a geographer — and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese ( 1766 – 1828 ).

The first table of atomic weights was published by John Dalton ( 1766 – 1844 ) in 1805, based on a system in which the atomic weight of hydrogen was defined as 1.

A new law in 1766 established for the first time the principle of freedom of the press — a notable step towards liberty of political opinion.

His maternal grandfather, Asa Dunbar, led Harvard's 1766 student " Butter Rebellion ", the first recorded student protest in the Colonies.

This was the result of the 1766 Free Ports Act, which opened Kingston and other designated Jamaican ports to foreign vessels for the first time.

Ignacy Krasicki ( 3 February 173514 March 1801 ), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia ( in German, Ermland ) and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno ( thus, Primate of Poland ), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet (" the Prince of Poets "), a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek.

The first use of the ambulance as a specialized vehicle, in battle came about with the ambulances volantes designed by Dominique Jean Larrey ( 1766 – 1842 ), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician.

One of the most extensive modern works on the meaning of the Revelation of John was written by Emanuel Swedenborg called the Apocalypse Revealed, first published in two volumes in Amsterdam in 1766.

To put this in context, it was in 1762 that John Harrison's Chronometer allowed longitude to be accurately measured and also in 1766 that the astronomer Titius first demonstrated that the mean distance of the planets could be represented by the progression.

Its binomial scientific name was first used by Erxleben in 1777 ; it is an amalgam of Pallas ' generic designation ( 1766 ) and Linnaeus ' specific conferral ( 1758 ).

As head of Yale College, Thomas Clap was both the last to be called " rector " ( 1740 – 1745 ) and the first to be referred to as president ( 1745 – 1766 ).

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh ( 1736 – 1790 ), later the college's first president, Queen's College was chartered on 10 November 1766.

In 1608, according to tradition, Blackheath was the place where golf was introduced to England – the Royal Blackheath Golf Club ( based in nearby Eltham since 1923 ) was one of the first golf associations established ( 1766 ) outside Scotland.

Genevieve was transacted at Kaskaskia until about 1766 when the first commandant, Philippe de Rocheblave, was installed at Ste.

His first paper, " Factitious Airs " appeared in 1766.

He had joined the American Revolutionary cause after arriving in America in 1766, when he changed his first name to George.

The world's first Freedom of the Press Act was introduced in Sweden-Finland in 1766, mainly due to classical liberal member of parliament Anders Chydenius.

On April 25, 1766, after the arrival of the first Acadians, the census showed a population of 409 inhabitants for the Attakapas region.

It was first settled in 1766 by Philip and S. Hodgkins from Georgetown.

Cheshire was first settled in 1766 and was officially incorporated in 1793.