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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 ...
6 September – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, marries the illegitimately-born Maria Walpole, Dowager Countess of Waldegrave at her home in Pall Mall, London, an event kept secret from his brother the King until after passage of the Royal Marriages Act 1772. October – Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, completed.
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. 1775: John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his second voyage (1772–1775).
Other events of 1766 History of France • Timeline • Years: ... Events from the year 1766 in France. Incumbents. Monarch – Louis XV [1] Events.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1766. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland .
The riots of 1766 were sparked by the first largescale exports of harvested grain in August. [3]: 126 Over the following 12 weeks there were more than 60 incidents of rioting across the country and the Annual Register described 30 riots in September by "the poor; who have been driven to desperation and madness, by the exorbitant prices of all manner of provisions". [4]
Timeline of Canadian history; List of years in Canada; Part of a series on the: ... Events from the year 1766 in Canada. Incumbents. Monarch: George III [1]