According to the traditional chronology based upon calculations by Liu Xin, the Shang ruled between 1766 BC and 1122 BC, but according to the chronology based upon the Bamboo Annals, they ruled between 1556 BC and 1046 BC.

The Shang Dynasty ruled from c. 1766 BC to c. 1050 BC.

The 60 year cycle combining the five elements with the twelve animal signs of the zodiac has been documented in China since at least the time of the Shang ( Shing or Yin ) dynasty ( ca 1766 BC – ca 1050 BC ).

The claim to universal hidalguía ( lowest nobility ) of the Basques was justified by intellectuals like Manuel de Larramendi ( 1690 – 1766 ) because the Moorish conquest of Iberia had not reached the Basque territories, so it was believed that Basques had maintained their original purity, while the rest of Spain was suspect of miscegenation.

The College remained in Siam for a century, until the conquest of Siam by Burma in 1766.

According to the traditional chronology based upon calculations by Liu Xin, the Xia ruled between 2205 and 1766 BC ; according to the chronology based upon the Bamboo Annals, it ruled between 1989 and 1558 BC.

Solomon I () ( 1735 – April 23, 1784 ), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was King of Imereti ( western Georgia ) from 1752 to 1766 and again from 1768 until his death in 1784.

Yongqi ( 23 March 1741-16 April 1766 ), courtesy name Junting (), pseudonym or art name Tengqin Jushi (), was a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty.

* 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 )

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

Salieri and Gassmann arrived in Vienna on 15 June 1766.

Beginning in 1766 Gassmann introduced Salieri to the daily chamber music performances held during Emperor Joseph II's evening meal.

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

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

" When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 ," Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol.

** C. v. mexicanus ( Linnaeus, 1766 )-eastern United States west of Atlantic Seaboard to Great Plains

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.

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

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

Occom, accompanied by Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker, traveled to England in 1766 to raise money from churches.

He is known to have been living in Northampton, Massachusetts in the spring of 1766, where his son Joseph was born, and where he invested in a lead mine.

In 1766, France agreed to leave, and Spain agreed to reimburse Louis de Bougainville, who had established a settlement at his own expense.

Goya submitted entries for the Royal Academy of Fine Art in 1763 and 1766, but was denied entrance.

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

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

Hopkinson spent from May 1766 to August 1767 in England in hopes of becoming commissioner of customs for North America.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

The first traces of therapeutic activities in China date from the Shang dynasty ( 14th – 11th centuries BCE ).

Shang Dynasty ( 1600-1046 BCE ) oracle and bronze inscriptions first recorded specific Chinese exonyms for foreigners, often in contexts of warfare or tribute.

In c 1600 BCE, King Tang of Shang defeated Jie, the final Xia Dynasty king, and built Western Bo (), a new capital on the Luo River.

In the 1136 BCE a settlement named Chengzhou () was constructed by the Duke of Zhou for the remnants of the captured Shang nobility.

Although proto-porcelain wares exist dating from the Shang Dynasty ( 1600 – 1046 BCE ), by the Eastern Han Dynasty period ( 196 – 220 ) glazed ceramic wares had developed into porcelain.

Although there is no archeological or reliable documentary evidence to support the view that Liubo dates back to the Shang Dynasty ( 1600 BCE – 1046 BCE ), early Chinese records do indicate that Liubo was already a popular game by the Warring States Period ( 476 BCE – 221 BCE ).

After Shang was overthrown by Zhou in the 1040s BCE, he allegedly gave political advice to King Wu, the first Zhou king.

The earliest written record on Gojoseon has been found in Shang-Shu-Da-Zhuan, recording the founding history of Gija Joseon which is established by Chinese Shang dynasty descendants in 12th century BCE.

In China a higher education institution Shang Xiang was founded by Shun in the Youyu era before the 21st century BCE.

1200 – 1050 BCE because the end date of the Shang dynasty is not a matter of consensus.

During the Shang Dynasty ( 17 – 11th centuries BCE ) the Chinese called god Shangdi ( 上帝 " lord on high ") or Di (" lord "), and during the Zhou Dynasty ( 11th – 3rd centuries BCE ) Tian " heaven ; god " became synonymous with Shangdi.

At the beginning of the 14th century BC King Pangeng of the Shang Dynasty moved his capital from Yān ( present day Qufu in Shandong Province ), to a village that had existed since 5, 000 BCE on the banks of the Huan River.

Around 1600 BCE Jie was defeated by Shang Tang, bringing an end to the Xia Dynasty, that lasted about 500 years, and a rise to the new Shang Dynasty.

As early as 645 BCE, the Yuezhi ( known later as the Kushans ) was mentioned as supplier of the famous nephrite jade from the region to China, and the excavations of Shang dynasty ( 1600 – 1046 BCE ) tomb of Fu Hao, showed that all the jade originated from the oases area of Khotan.

Composite bows ( and chariots ) are known in China from at least the Shang Dynasty ( 1700 – 1100 BCE ).

Dings were originally made of ceramic materials then later, from the time of the Shang Dynasty ( 1600-1046 BCE ), were cast in bronze for " ritual bronzes ", which were often buried in the tomb of their owners for use in the afterlife.

Image: Shang-Sanxingdui Sites. png | Sanxingdui culture existed contemporaneously with the Early and Late Shang ( 1600-1027 BCE ).

BCE ), King Tang of Shang ( r. 1617 ?- 1588?