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

1766 Media

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  William Hyde Wollaston

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  British physicist and chemist John Dalton (1766–1844) by Charles Turner (1773–1857) after James Lonsdale (1777–1839). Mezzotint.

1766 (MDCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1766th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 766th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1766, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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)