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.

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

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 ).

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.

* RFC 1766 + RFC 3066 Tags for the Identification of Languages ( was BCP 47 )

This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

Shortly after Sabah's death, in 1766, the al-Khalifa and, soon after, the al-Jalahima, left Kuwait en masse for Zubara in Qatar.

The marble Laocoön provided the central image for Lessing's Laocoön, 1766, an aesthetic polemic directed against Winckelmann and the comte de Caylus.

The Briery church purchased five slaves in 1766 and raised money for church expenses by hiring them out to local planters.

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.

The London Magazine of 1766 offered ' Pitt, Pompadour, Prussia, Providence ' as the reasons for Britain's success in the Seven Years ' War.

* July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam ( b. 1766 )

A new law in 1766 established for the first time the principle of freedom of the press — a notable step towards liberty of political opinion.

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 proposal, the germ of the Nautical Almanac, was approved by the government, and under the care of Maskelyne the Nautical Almanac for 1767 was published in 1766.

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.

* 1766 – Johann Titius finds the Titius-Bode rule for planetary distances

Harrison was a representative for Surry County, Virginia, ( 1756 – 1758 ) and Charles City County ( 1766 – 1776 ) to the House of Burgesses.

It was named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768 and opposed harsh colonial policies.

It was named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Prime Minister from 1765 to 1766 and again in 1782.

It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon.

Nicolas Etienne Marafret Layssard arrived in December 1766, with the permission of Aubrey and Foucault, to establish a " tar works " in the pineries of Rapides, for naval stores.

Nikolay Karamzin, 1766 – 1826, for example, is known for his advocacy of Russian writers adopting traits in the poetry and prose like a heightened sense of emotion and physical vanity, considered to be feminine at the time as well as supporting the cause of female Russian writers.

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.

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.

For example, the Royal Society of Edinburgh gives a date of birth of 1768, and his gravestone gave a date of birth of 1766.

* Robert Kite, Lord Mayor of London in 1766

He again led the country ( holding the official title of Lord Privy Seal ) between 1766 and 1768.

Those who are able to read the history in the light of what occurred later may perhaps be convinced that no policy whatever initiated, after 1766 could have prevented or even materially delayed the United States Declaration of Independence ; but to the politicians of that time the coming event had not yet cast so dark a shadow before as to paralyse all action, and if any man could have allayed the growing discontent of the colonists and prevented the ultimate dismemberment of the empire, it would have been Lord Chatham.

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.

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 ).

* Lord Gerald FitzGerald ( 1766 – 1788 ).

He became Solicitor General for Scotland in 1766 ; but after his appointment as Lord Advocate in 1775, he gradually relinquished his legal practice to devote his attention more exclusively to public affairs.

* Lord North, MP ( 1754 – 1766 )

Lord North, MP ( 1766 – 1772 )

In 1765 appeared his metrical translation of the plays of Terence ; and in 1766, he produced The Clandestine Marriage, jointly with Garrick, whose refusal to take the part of Lord Ogleby led to a quarrel between the two authors.

A note from Lord North to the Office of Works, dated September 1774, asks that the work on the front of the house, " which was begun by a Warrant from the Treasury dated 9 August 1766 ", should be finished.

Associated with the aristocratic Whig party of Lord Rockingham, Portland served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household in Rockingham's first Government ( 1765 – 1766 ) and then as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Rockingham's second ministry ( April – August 1782 ); he resigned from Lord Shelburne's ministry along with other supporters of Charles James Fox following Rockingham's death.

Lord Longford died in April 1766, aged 52.

Hawke also served as First Lord of the Admiralty for five years between 1766 and 1771.

In 1766 Hawke joined the government of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | William Pitt as First Lord of the Admiralty, a post he heldfor the next five years.

He was made First Lord of the Admiralty in December 1766.

The Duke holds several subsidiary titles, including: Marquess of Kintyre and Lorne ( created 1701 ), Earl of Argyll ( created 1457 ), Earl Campbell and Cowall and Viscount Lochow and Glenyla ( created 1701 ), Lord Campbell ( created 1445 ), Lord Lorne ( created 1470 ), Lord Kintyre ( created 1626 ), Lord Inveraray, Mull, Mover and Tiry ( created 1701 ), Baron Hamilton of Hameldon ( created 1776 ) and Baron Sundridge ( created 1766 ).

* Secretary of State for the Northern Department: Henry Seymour Conway ( 1766 – 1768 ), Lord Weymouth ( 1768 ), Lord Rochford ( 1768 – 1770 )