The acquisition of Lorraine for the former Polish king, however, proved of lasting benefit to France, as it passed under direct French rule with Stanisław's death in 1766.

When Stanisław died on 23 February 1766, Lorraine was annexed by France and reorganized as a province by the French government.

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.

Claude was born in 1604 or 1605 into poverty in the town of Chamagne, Vosges in Lorraine – then the Duchy of Lorraine, an independent state until 1766 and now in northeast France.

François-Pierre-Gonthier Maine de Biran ( November 29, 1766 in Bergerac, France – July 20, 1824 in Paris, France ), usually known simply as Maine de Biran, was a French philosopher.

Oliver Goldsmith's novel The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) and the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, and in France Honoré de Balzac's The Curate of Tours ( Le Curé de Tours ) ( 1832 ) all evoke the impoverished world of the 18th-and 19th-century vicar.

Large numbers of Charleville Model 1763 and 1766 muskets were imported into the United States from France during the American Revolution, due in large part to the influence of Marquis de Lafayette.

In Spain the change was mainly accomplished between the years 1760 and 1766 ; in France, the change occurred between 1782 and 1793 ; in Britain and the United States, between 1795 and 1810.

" Travels through France and Italy ( 1766 )

* Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles ( 1678 – 1766 ), Marshal of France in 1734

* Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, ( 1766 – 1847 ), Marshal of France in 1831

* The village of Nennig was a condominium of the Trier bishopric, Lorraine ( the Kingdom of France from 1766 ) and Luxembourg until its annexation by Revolutionary France in 1794

* 1766 – 68 – Ambassador to France

The grand Château de Lunéville, built in 1702 for Leopold, Duke of Lorraine to replace an older palace, was the residence of the duke of Lorraine until the duchy was annexed by France in 1766.

After the death of his father-in-law in 1766, Louis XV of France annexed the duchy and turned the castle into a barracks, but much of the original construction has survived, and what remains is open to the public and the chateau's intricate parterre gardens, designed by Yves Hours ( a pupil of André Le Nôtre ) in 1711 and Louis de Nesle in 1724, are a public park today.

The long-held loyalty of the dukes of Lorraine to the Holy Roman Emperor had waned in the first half of the thirteenth century and French influence was pervasive leading to its permanent attachment to France in 1766.

After the close of the Seven Years ' War, the prince visited England with his bride, the daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and in 1766 he went to France, being received both by his allies and his late enemies with every token of respect.

Until 1766 France and the Papacy remained committed to restoring the Stuarts to their British Kingdoms, and Irish soldiers in the French service fought on the Jacobite side in the Scottish Jacobite uprisings up to the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Second son of Jean-Pierre Bachasson, 1st count of Montalivet ( 1766 – 1823 ), peer of France and Minister of Emperor Napoléon, he was born in Valence, Drôme.

Jean-Pierre Bachasson, Seigneur et 1er Comte de Montalivet ( Neunkirch, now part of Sarreguemines, Moselle, 5 July 1766 – Château de Lagrange, Cher, 22 January 1823 ) was a French statesman and Peer of France.

After spending time around France and briefly in Switzerland he returned to England in early 1766, not leaving to continue his grand tour until December.

This distinction between empirical and rational psychology was picked up in Denis Diderot's ( 1713 – 1780 ) Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1784 ) and was popularized in France by Maine de Biran ( 1766 – 1824 ).

" 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.

While Charlot Kaské wanted to burn Croghan at the stake, Pontiac urged moderation and agreed to travel to New York, where he made a formal treaty with William Johnson at Fort Ontario on July 25, 1766.

* 1766 Grenville, unpopular with the king, was dismissed when the Rockingham Whigs agreed to form a government under Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham.

* October 25 – Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain ( d. 1766 )

Elisabeth Farnese ( Italian: Elisabetta Farnese, Spanish: Isabel de Farnesio ; 25 October 1692 – 11 July 1766 ), the daughter of Odoardo Farnese and Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, was Queen consort of Spain who exerted great influence over Spain's foreign policy.

The third visit of Bougainville's ship L ' Aigle at the beginning of 1766 brought more people and stores, bringing the colony to over a hundred and thirty people, but Bougainville himself did not accompany the ship, as he had been instructed by King Louis XV to travel to Madrid to negotiate the transfer of the colony to Spain.

Rice ( 1980 ), ‘ Great Britain, the Manila Ransom and the First Falkland Islands Dispute with Spain, 1766 ’, The International History Review, v. 2, n. 3 ( July, 1980 ), 386 – 409

Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( January 6, 1766 – September 20, 1840 ) was the first leader of Paraguay following its independence from Spain.

In 1766 Clement XIII granted Spain the privilege of adding after " Mater intemerata " the invocation " Mater immaculata ", which is still customary in Spain, notwhthstanding the addition of " Regina sine labe originali concepta ".

Also in 1766, Spain acquired the French colony, and after assuming effective control in 1767, placed the islands under a governor subordinate to Buenos Aires.

* Don Juan Francisco de Güemes, 1st Count of Revillagigedo ( 1682 ?– 1766 ), was the Viceroy of New Spain from 1746 to 1755.

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.

* Elizabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, wife of King Philip V, mother of Charles III ( 1692 – 1766 )

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.

From 1766 onwards the Papacy did not object to the fact of an established Anglican church, as Roman Catholicism was the established church in countries such as Spain until 1931 and Austria until 1918.

The reforms were not without costs, however, and in 1766, in the context of a worldwide grain shortage and the difficulties of the recently liberalized grain trade, riots broke out in Madrid and other cities in Spain against rising grain prices.

Conde born at La Peraleja, Cuenca, in present-day Spain on 28 October 1766.

Most say he was born in Spain in 1766 and served in the Spanish Navy aboard the Floridablanca.

On Easter Sunday 1766, Tobarra became the second place in Spain, after Madrid, to rise up against food shortages, in the Esquilache Riots.