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1766 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 ...
Events. 1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
A historic map by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey that has been georeferenced by the Regional Plan Association for mapping historic wetlands in OpenHistoricalMap. OpenHistoricalMap allows anyone with a free account to contribute directly to the map through an editor such as the iD Web application or the JOSM desktop application.
Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy. These included The History and present State of Virginia (1705) by Robert Beverly and History of the Dividing Line (1728–29) by William Byrd, which was not published until a century later. Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading ...
Events [ edit ] 1 January – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism , on the death of his father James Francis Edward Stuart , Pretender since 1701 .
1926 - Atlanta Historical Society founded. 1927 - Atlanta Historical Bulletin begins publication. 1928 - Atlanta World newspaper begins publication. 1929 Atlanta University Center Consortium established. City Hall built. [2] January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. is born. WGST radio begins broadcasting. [35] 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro ...
1772–1795: The Partitions of Poland end the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and erase Poland from the map for 123 years. 1773–1775: Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest peasant revolt in Russian history. 1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China. 1773: 16 December, the Boston Tea Party.
The British Free Port Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 49) opened six British ports in the West Indies to foreign merchants, and enabled English colonists to conduct trade with French and Spanish colonies. [1] It was passed in 1766 following the Seven Years’ War and prior to the American Revolution. The act was a modified version of one in use by the ...