* 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 )

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

The acquisition of Lorraine ( effective in 1766 at Stanislaus ' death ) was to be the last territorial expansion of France on the continent before the French Revolution.

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 ).

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

After a period of active opposition to the Chatham Ministry led by Pitt between 1766, and 1768 Grenville became an Elder statesman during his last few years-seeking to avoid becoming associated with any faction or party in the House of Commons.

" Pitt's continued refusal to join the first Rockingham administration was no doubt partly due to the same disastrous influence, though before the close of 1765 the old friendship between the brothers-in-law was dissolving ; and when at last in July 1766 Pitt agreed to form a government, Temple refused to join ; being bitterly offended because, although offered the Treasury, he was not to be allowed an equal share with Pitt in nominating to other offices.

He continued as the head of Yale until commencement on September 10, 1766 when he presided over his last commencement, delivered his valedictory address, and resigned.

200px The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Bective ( 1766 ), Viscount Headfort ( 1762 ), Baron Headfort, of Headfort in the County of Meath, ( 1760 ), and Baron Kenlis, of Kenlis in the County of Meath ( 1831 ), all but the last in the Peerage of Ireland.

While most of Istria had gradually been annexed by Venice, Engelbert's descendant Count Albert III of Gorizia in 1374 bequested his Mitterburg estates to the Austrian House of Habsburg, who attached them to their Duchy of Carniola and gave it out in fief to various families, the last of which was the comital House of Montecuccoli from 1766.

His last major work was a translation of Fenelon's Les aventures de Telemaque ( 1766 ; Tilemakhida ), which he rendered in Russian hexameters.

In 1766 – 1768 Linnaeus published the much enhanced 12th edition, the last under his authorship.

The last representative of the family, Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later Duke of Lorraine, died in 1766.

From 1766 to 1832, Doughoregan Manor was the country home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.

It was named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768 and opposed harsh colonial policies.

In 1766 Mysore began to become drawn into territorial and diplomatic disputes between the nizam of Hyderabad and the British East India Company, which had by then become the dominant European colonial power on the Indian east coast.

In other words, the Declaratory Act of 1766 asserted that Parliament had the absolute power to make laws and changes to the colonial government, " in all cases whatsoever ", even though the colonists were not represented in the Parliament.

Benning Wentworth ( 24 July 1696 – 14 October 1770 ) was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.

He also held a commission in the Connecticut colonial militia for over 20 years, rising to the rank of colonel, and he served in the lower house of the Connecticut Legislature ( 1761 and 1765 ) and in the upper house ( 1766 and 1771 – 75 ).

In 1766, Spain acquired the French colony on the Falkland Islands, called Port St. Louis, and after assuming effective control in 1767, placed the islands under a governor subordinate to the Buenos Aires colonial administration.

The city also boasts colonial buildings like the Saints Peter and Paul Metropolitan Cathedral built in 1761 to 1766 under the supervision of the Spanish Dominicans who came to evangelize Cagayan Valley.

Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton ( 26 December 1766 – 20 January 1832 ) was a British colonial administrator in Lower Canada and Irish politician.

It is said that the first Spanish settlement was established in the area in 1766, marking the onset of Spanish colonial rule.

John Brice, Jr. ( 1705 – 1766 ) was an early American settler and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland.