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 John Boyd had Danson House built in parkland ( now Danson Park between Bexleyheath and Welling ).

* 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.

The genus Coloeus, from the Ancient Greek κολοιός ( koloios ) for jackdaw, was created by Peter Pallas in 1766, though most subsequent works have retained the two jackdaw species in Corvus.

Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Holland was the son of the physician Peter Holland ( 1766 – 1853 ) and his wife Mary Willets.

On 31 March 1766, he was baptized George John Scipio Africanus, and described as a negro boy belonging to Benjamin Molineux of Molineux House, in the Collegiate church of St Peter in Wolverhampton.

It was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766.

The common eland was first described in 1766 by the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas.

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.

Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, (; Manuel José Francisco António Caetano Estêvão Bartolomeu ; ) ( Lisbon, August 3, 1697-Quinta de Belas, August 3, 1766 ) was a Portuguese infante ( prince ), seventh child of Peter II, King of Portugal, and his wife Marie-Sophie of Neuburg.

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 ).

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Louis XV had added to the appanage of the House of Orléans the hôtel de Grand-Ferrare in Fontainebleau ( 1740 ), the county of Soissons ( 1751 ), the seigneuries of La Fère, Marle, Ham, Saint-Gobain, the Ourcq canal and the hôtel Duplessis-Châtillon in Paris ( 1766 ).

He was both the fifth rector and the earliest to be called " president " of Yale College ( 1740 – 1766 ).

These included the 1607 New Castle ( Neue Schloss ) for Kaspar von Graffenrieds ( renovated 1740, 1755, 1930-36 ) and the 1723 Märchligen Estate for Samuel Morlot ( renovated in 1766, 1820 ), both of which were used as summer residences.

It was built between 1761 and 1766 by Cornils Guislain-Jacobsen who had been in the town since 1740.

Jeanne Baret ( sometimes spelled Baré or Barret ) ( July 27, 1740 – August 5, 1807 ) was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766 – 1769.

* 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 )