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.

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.

Simultaneously, Pu Songling, in China, included many fairy tales in his collection, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio ( published posthumously, 1766 ).

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.

This work was published in 1756 ( the year of Wolfgang's birth ), and went through two further German editions ( 1769, 1787 ), as well as being translated into Dutch ( 1766 ) and French ( 1770 ).

Bailly published his Essay on the theory of the satellites of Jupiter in 1766 ), an expansion of a presentation he had made to the Academy in 1763.

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 ).

Toup's reputation was established by his Emendationes in Suidam, the first part of which was published in 1760, the second part in 1764, and the third part in 1766.

Winckelmann contributed various essays to the Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften ; and, in 1766, published his Versuch einer Allegorie.

This is virtually a revised edition of the incomplete translation published by Christoph Martin Wieland between 1762 and 1766.

In February 1766 he published the first volume of Commentaries on the Laws of England, considered his magnum opus-the completed work earned Blackstone £ in terms.

The first volume was published in February 1766, bringing the author £ 1, 600-the full work would eventually bring in over £ 14, 000.

Every copy was sold within six months, and the second and third volumes, published in October 1766 and June 1768, received a similar reception.

However, three years later, in 1766, Kant wrote and anonymously published a small book entitled Träume eines Geistersehers ( Dreams of a Spirit-Seer ) that was a scathing critique of Swedenborg and his writings.

He moved to London in about 1759 and in 1766 published The anatomy of the Horse.

Only a few of Zach's pieces were published during his lifetime: a harpsichord sonata ( in Oeuvres mêlées, v / 6 ( Nuremberg, 1759 )), a harpsichord concerto ( Nuremberg, 1766 ; GS C13 ), and the collection Sei sonate for harpsichord and violin or flute ( Paris, 1767 ).

The word itself appears in the title of Volume 3 of Michael Christoph Hanow's Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia, published in 1766.

In 1766 he published the first part of his British Zoology, a work meritorious rather as a laborious compilation than as an original contribution to science.

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.

Jean Astruc ( Sauves, Auvergne, 19 March 1684 – Paris, 5 May 1766 ) was a professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.

His collections reached home in safety, and five years after his death his notes were published by Linnaeus under the title Iter Palæstinum, Eller Resa til Heliga Landet, Förrättad Ifrån år 1749 til 1752, which was translated into French and German in 1762 and into English in 1766 ( as Voyages and Travels in the Levant, in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52 ).

* Notes on the Kings Writ for choosing Members of Parliament … were published 1766 ( see also add.

It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians.

In 1766 ( second edition 1779 ) David Hoüard, a Norman advocate, published the Tenures under the title of Anciennes Loix des François conservées dans les coutumes angloises, arguing that they were derived from, and thus the best evidence for, early French customary law.

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 ).

He began his career with the publication of a short work on the solar eclipse of 5 August 1766.

Another new recruit, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, met Darwin, Small and Boulton in 1766 through a shared interest in carriage design, and he in turn introduced his friend and fellow Rousseau-admirer Thomas Day, with whom he had studied at Corpus Christi, Oxford.

Although the area was originally settled in 1733, Moncton is considered to have been officially founded in 1766 with the arrival of Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants from Philadelphia.

The general theory of Pell's equation, based on continued fractions and algebraic manipulations with numbers of the form was developed by Lagrange in 1766 – 1769.

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.

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.

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.

In July 1766 Rockingham was dismissed, and Pitt was entrusted by the King with the task of forming a government entirely of his own selection.

The title page of The First Blast from a 1766 edition with modernised spelling.

In 1766 Banks was elected to the Royal Society, and in the same year, at 23, he went with Phipps aboard the frigate to Newfoundland and Labrador with a view of studying their natural history.

The first use of the ambulance as a specialized vehicle, in battle came about with the ambulances volantes designed by Dominique Jean Larrey ( 1766 – 1842 ), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician.

A more recent analysis of early records posits that at least some of the Cheyenne remained in the Mille Lac region of Minnesota until c. 1765, when the Chippewa ( Ojibwe ) defeated the Dakota with firearms — pushing the Cheyenne in turn to the Minnesota River, where they were reported in 1766.

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.

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.

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.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

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.