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

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.

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.

* Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Journal of a voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador commencing 7 April and ending 17 November 1766

***** HM The Princess Charlotte, Princess Royal, Queen of Württemberg ( 1766 – 1828 )

In 1608, according to tradition, Blackheath was the place where golf was introduced to England – the Royal Blackheath Golf Club ( based in nearby Eltham since 1923 ) was one of the first golf associations established ( 1766 ) outside Scotland.

In 1766 Chambers was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The survey was not complete until late 1766, following which they stayed on to measure a degree of Earth's meridian on the Delmarva Peninsula in Maryland, on behalf of the Royal Society.

* 7 November 1745 – 22 October 1766: His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales

* 22 October 1766 – 18 December 1790: His Royal Highness The Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn

Some visits to Bath, however, where from 1770 until his death in 1805, he made No. 4 Royal Crescent his permanent home, ( albeit the plaque recording this is actually displayed outside No. 5 ) where in 1766 he penned his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family ..., a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, about the adventures of the " Blunderhead " family in Bath, from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

He was succeeded as 3rd Earl by his younger brother, who was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1766 to 1767.

The Princess Charlotte, Princess Royal ( Charlotte Augusta Matilda ; later Queen Charlotte of Württemberg ; 29 September 1766 – 5 October 1828 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, the eldest daughter of George III.

She was styled HRH The Princess Royal from October 1766 and officially designated as such on 22 June 1789.

* 29 September 1766 – 22 June 1789: Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte

His third son, Sir William Hope-Johnstone ( 1766 – 1831 ) was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

In 1766, Gunnerus was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

* William Hyde Wollaston ( 1766 – 1828 ), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

In 1766 he became a member of the Royal Society.

In 1766 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1766, the Royal Society hired Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun.

* 3 July 1746-1 October 1766 Her Royal Highness Princess Sophie Magdalene of Denmark and Norway

* Charlotte, Princess Royal ( 1766 – 1828 ), eldest daughter of King George III ; Queen consort of King Frederick I of Württemberg

Noteworthy are also the many special collections at Leiden University Library among which those of the Society of Dutch Literature ( 1766 ) and the collection of casts and engravings.

This picture, which made the young Boston painter a Fellow of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, by vote of September 3, 1766, had been painted the preceding year.

Soho House, Matthew Boulton's home ( from 1766 until he died in 1809 ) in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is now a museum ( opened in 1995 ), celebrating his life, his partnership with James Watt and his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.

In 1766 Boulton became one of the founders of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.

In 1766, Charlestown, South Carolina became the home of the St. Cecilia Society, the first musical society in North America.

In 1766 the head of the Mission of Ralún tried to reestablish the mission at Nahuel Huapi ; but was ultimately prevented by the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the lands of Spanish Crown in 1767.

In 1766, Charlestown, South Carolina became the home of the St. Cecilia Society, the first musical society in North America.

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

Claudius Buchanan ( 12 March 1766 – 9 February 1815 ) was a Scottish theologian, an ordained minister of the Church of England, and an extremely ' low church ' missionary for the Church Missionary Society.

In 1757 he became an associate of the Imperial Academy of St Petersburg, and a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1758 a member of the Academy of Berlin, in 1766 of that of Stockholm, and in 1770 of the Academies of Copenhagen and of Bern.

* 1774 – Society has 20 instrumentalists, mirroring Joseph Haydn's Esterhazy orchestra of 1766 to 1790

He invented the drill plough ( 1766 ), winning a prize of £ 60 from the Royal Society for his efforts.

In 1766 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and he exhibited with them and in the Royal Academy.

In February 1766, he joined the Hudson ’ s Bay Company as a mate on the sloop Churchill, which was then engaged in the Inuit trade out of Prince of Wales Fort, Churchill, Manitoba.

The Sons engaged in a running conflict with British authority in the City over the raising of liberty poles in prominent public locations ( see Battle of Golden Hill ), from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 until rebel control of the city in 1775.

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who voyaged between 1766 and 1769, and James Cook, who voyaged from 1768 to 1779, carried out their explorations in the South Pacific, information on the oceans themselves formed part of the reports.

The cape was named by British explorer Captain James Cook on passing here on 15 May 1770, to honour British explorer John Byron who circumnavigated the globe in the HMS Dolphin from 1764 to 1766.

* Voyage d ' un français en Italie ( 1769 ), a valuable record of his travel in 1765 – 1766.

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.

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.

Having obtained permission from the king to travel abroad, he departed in 1766, under the care of an English preceptor.

Educated at Eton College, through his stepfather Charles Townshend, Henry was given the opportunity to travel abroad with Adam Smith as his tutor from 1764 to 1766.

Travels through France and Italy is travel literature by Tobias Smollett published in 1766.