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Year 1766 (MDCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1766
January - June
July - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
- February 14 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (died 1834)
- April 6 - Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Legion D'honneur, French Mathematician and Scholar (death unknown)
- April 22 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, French author (died 1817)
- May 30 - Robert Darwin, Medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (died 1848)
- June 13 - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (died 1875).
- July 8 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)
- July 21 - Thomas Charles Hope, Scottish chemist and discoverer of Strontium (died 1844)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1766 births.
Deaths
- January 1 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (born 1688)
- January 9 - Thomas Birch, English historian (born 1705)
- January 13 - King Frederick V of Denmark (born 1723)
- January 19 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)
- January 21 - James Quin, English actor (born 1693)
- February 5 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (born 1705)
- February 23 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (born 1677)
- April 4 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (born 1704)
- April 7 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (born 1685)
- May 5 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684)
- May 8 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (born 1693)
- June 24 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (born 1678)
- July 9 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (born 1720)
- July 11 - Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (born 1692)
- July 14 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (born 1674)
- September 3 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (born 1686)
- September 13 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (born 1704)
- November 9 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (born 1692)
- December 12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (born 1700)
- See also Category: 1766 deaths.af:1766
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