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.

In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ( On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body ), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease.

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 ".

In 1766, almost ten years before the American Revolutionary War, Lee is credited with having authored the Westmoreland Resolution which was publicly signed by prominent landowners who met at Leedstown, Westmoreland County, Virginia on 27 Feb 1766.

One of the earliest acts of the new ministry was to lay an embargo upon corn, which was thought necessary in order to prevent a dearth resulting from the unprecedented bad harvest of 1766.

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.

The struggle began in 1766, when the King's representative in the Bahamas, Mr Symmer, on his own authority, wrote a constitution which legislated for and taxed the Bermudians on the Turks.

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.

Noteworthy are also the many special collections at Leiden University Library among which those of the Society of Dutch Literature ( 1766 ) and the collection of casts and engravings.

In 1766 Johann Lambert wrote, but did not publish, Theorie der Parallellinien in which he attempted, as Saccheri did, to prove the fifth postulate.

Directly to the south of the churchyard stands a 12. 80 metre tall granite obelisk, which was erected in 1861 as a memorial to the Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist, Samuel Gurney ( 1766 to 1856 ).

He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper " On Factitious Airs ".

In 1766, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth promised Eleazar Wheelock a grant of a township on which to build Dartmouth College.

In 1766, the Daniel Parks family was the first family to settle in to the area after receiving of land, on which they built a house and a saw mill.

Another long-standing park is Prater in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1766.

Additionally, laws governing the colonies of the British Empire ( including the 1766 amendment to the Sugar Act of 1764 ) used the latitude of Cape Finisterre as the latitude past which certain goods could not be shipped north directly between British colonies.

In his pocket-book her name as “ Miss Angelica ” or “ Miss Angel ” appears frequently ; and in 1766 he painted her, a compliment which she returned by her Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

After James Rannie died in 1766, Thomas Haig seems to have borrowed £ 2, 000 from Rannie's widow, which he used to become Chippendale ’ s partner.

The canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament which was passed on 14 May 1766.

They are separated into two separate laws mainly to maintain the tradition of the Freedom of the Press Act from 1766, largely the work of proto-Liberal Cap Party politician Anders Chydenius, which abolished censorship and restricted limitations to retroactive legal measures for criticism of the Lutheran state church and the royal house exclusively.

The 1766 Act held for example that freedom of expression was to be uninhibited, except for " violations ", which included blasphemy and criticism of the state.

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.

1766 ) by Joseph Wright of Derby

Commissioned and presented by Joseph Strutt ( 1766 – 1844 ) a wealthy industrialist and major local benefactor, the Derby Arboretum was designed by John Claudius Loudon and had a major impact upon the development of urban parks.

Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, 1766, a Conversation piece ( paintings ) | conversation piece with no portraits and with the full seriousness of the history painting.

FitzHerbert was educated at Derby School ( 1763 – 1766 ), Eton College ( 1766 – 70 ) and St John's College, Cambridge ( 1770 – 1774 ).

Joseph Wright of Derby was mainly a portrait painter who also was one of the first artists to depict the Industrial Revolution, as well as developing a cross between the conversation piece and history painting in works like An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump ( 1768 ) and A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery ( c. 1766 ), which like many of his works are lit only by candlelight, giving a strong chiaroscuro effect.

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes in Ottoman Empire | Ottoman dress, painted by Antoine de Favray, 1766, Pera Museum, Istanbul.

Besides a number of decorative works, mostly ceilings, he painted mythological and religious canvases and portraits, among the best being: " The Artist's Children " ( 1766, Dresden Gallery ), " Marriage at Cana " ( 1777 ) and four others in Leipzig Museum, and " The Painter's Studio " ( Weimar Museum ).

A set of these was presented by him to the British Museum, and they were described by Daniel Solander in the beautifully illustrated work entitled Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Musaeo Britannico deposita a Gustavo Brander ( London, 1766 ).

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

Art by François Boucher Cathédrale Saint-Louis ( 1766 ) Versailles

" Copley himself complained, in a letter to Benjamin West, written November 12, 1766: " In this Country as You rightly observe there is no examples of Art, except what is to met with in a few prints indifferently exicuted, from which it is not possable to learn much ".

Two Swiss artists, Adrian Zingg and Anton Graff, were appointed in 1766 to the Dresden Academy of Art.

On April 7, 1766, Graff arrived in Dresden where he was appointed court painter and teacher for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy, a post he kept for life although he got better paid offers at other academies, among others in Berlin.

The city has been called an " architectural museum ," because the downtown features numerous well-preserved historic structures, such as the 1741 Golden Plough Tavern, the 1751 General Horatio Gates House, the 1766 York Meetinghouse, the 1863 Billmeyer House, the 1888 York Central Market, and the 1907 Moorish Revival Temple Beth Israel.

Although the term " sons of liberty " had been used in a generic fashion well before 1765, it was only around February 1766 that its influence as an organized group, using the formal name " Sons of Liberty ", extended throughout the colonies, leading to the development of a pattern for future resistance to the British that would carry the colonies towards 1776.

The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists from the usurpations by the British government after 1766.

After 1766 Haydn was the Kapellmeister at the Esterházy court, presiding over a fairly large group of musicians.

He began as an imitator of the Anacreontic school ( Tändeleyen, 1759 ); then wrote, in imitation of Gleim, Kriegslieder eines dänischen Grenadiers ( 1762 ); with his Gedicht eines Skalden ( 1766 ) he joined the group of bards led by Klopstock.

In 1766, a group of settlers arrived in the area led by Matthias Somers, Michael Lutz, Jacob Trietz ( Trites ), Charles Jones, and Heinrich Stieff ( Steeves ).