1766

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1730s  1740s  1750s  – 1760s –  1770s  1780s  1790s
Years:	1763 1764 1765 – 1766 – 1767 1768 1769

Events

• March 18 – Britain repeals the Stamp Act after American protests.

Births

• February 14 – Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (died 1834)
• April 6 – Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, French Mathematician and Scholar
• April 22 – Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, French writer (died 1817)
• May 30 – Robert Darwin, Medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (died 1848)
• July 8 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)
• August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (died 1828)
• September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (died 1844)
• October 23 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (died 1847)
• November 2 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (died 1858)
• December 3 – Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in Civil War (died 1862)