A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

The most infamous club associated with the name was established in England by Sir Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.

In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford ( 1740 – 1811 ), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome.

* Sir William Cusack-Smith, 2nd Baronet ( 1766 – 1836 ), baronet

* Sir John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) mathematician, physicist, investigator of heat ( thermodynamics )

From 1766 or 67, John Nash trained with the architect Sir Robert Taylor.

Wentworth regranted the township in 1766, naming it Acworth after Sir Jacob Acworth, an English admiral with interests in Portsmouth shipping.

A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was the son of James Grattan MP, of Belcamp Park, County Dublin ( d. 1766 ), and Mary ( 1724 – 1768 ), youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Marlay ( 1691 – 1756 ), Attorney-General of Ireland, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ( Ireland ).

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.

* Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, for Sir Roland Winn, Bt ( 1766 – 85 );

In July 1766, Pontiac made peace with British Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson.

Pontiac met with Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on July 25, 1766, at Oswego, New York, and formally ended hostilities.

West got the canvas into the Exhibition of the year and wrote, on August 4, 1766, a letter to Copley in which he referred to Sir Joshua Reynolds's interest in the work and advised the artist to follow his example by making " a viset to Europe for this porpase ( of self-improvement ) for three or four years.

It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.

* Sir John Leslie ( physicist ) ( 1766 – 1832 ), Scottish mathematician and physicist

* Sir George Thomas, 1st Baronet ( died 1774 ), Governor of the Leeward Islands 1753 – 1766, see Thomas baronets

The Abbey stands at the west end of the market place, which is home to the Shambles a Grade II * covered market built in 1766 by Sir Walter Blackett.

In 1766 he sailed to Newfoundland as Lieutenant on HMS Niger under Captain Sir Thomas Adams.

Sir Robert was appointed Sheriff of London for 1761 and Lord Mayor of London for 1766.

The heiress to the vast Percy estates married the Duke of Somerset ; and her granddaughter married a Yorkshire knight, Sir Hugh Smithson, who in 1766 was created the first Duke of Northumberland and Earl Percy, and it is their descendants who now represent the famous old house.

His son Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland ( 1766 – 1809 ) was a pioneering writer and the author of The State of the Poor, published in 3 volumes in 1797.

* Sir Thomas Taylor, 3rd Baronet ( 1724 – 1795 ) ( created Earl of Bective in 1766 )

His third son from his second marriage, Sir Charles Pratt, was also a prominent lawyer and politician and served as Lord Chancellor between 1766 to 1770.

He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of Plas Newydd, and Caroline, Lady Bayly ( d. 1766 ), granddaughter of the Hon.

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

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

* John Wedgwood ( 1766 – 1844 )

* John Brown ( essayist ) ( 1715 – 1766 ), English clergyman

* July 27 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist ( b. 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.

* November 5 – John Brown, English writer ( d. 1766 )

* June 22 – John Taylor, English classical scholar ( d. 1766 )

John Dalton FRS ( 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844 ) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist.

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.

* John Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury ( 1761 to 1766 )

* John Overton, ( 1766 – 1833 ), born in Louisa County, notable political leader who was an adviser to Andrew Jackson and co-founder of Memphis, Tennessee.

In " The Conquest of the Old Southwest ", it is stated that in 1766 John Baker hunted with Daniel Boone's brother-in-law, John Stewart.

* John Brewster Jr. ( 1766 – 1854 ) deaf, itinerant, prolific painter, was born in town.

British Lt. John Ramsey came to Vincennes in 1766.

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

It was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth on November 1, 1766 to John Page and 60 others.

Attributed to James Adam ( possibly in concert with John Adam ), it was built between 1758 and 1766, under the supervision of James Nisbet, with extensive interiors ( c1773 ) by Robert Adam, as well as furniture by Thomas Chippendale.

John Smeaton rejected this idea in 1766, suggesting that the banks should be moved inwards to create a narrower, faster-flowing channel.

Advice was sought from John Smeaton ( 1766 ) and William Jessop ( 1787 ) Under the Ouse Navigation Act ( 1790 ):