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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 ...
1766 – January: The New York Assembly refuses to implement the Quartering Act. March: The Declaratory Act is passed, repealing the Stamp Act. 1767 – March: Boston makes first attempt at a nonimportation agreement. June: Townshend Acts passed.
Charlotte Lennox – The History of Eliza; Susannah Minifie – The Picture; Sarah Scott – The History of Sir George Ellison; Pu Songling (died 1715) – Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (聊齋誌異, Liaozhai Zhiyi; first surviving printed edition) Christoph Martin Wieland – Geschichte des Agathon; Anna Williams – Miscellanies in ...
The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...
Maruyama Ōkyo, Crows, 1766; pair of sixfold screens; ink and gold on paper. Portrait of John Burgoyne by Joshua Reynolds. Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of David Garrick with a bust of Shakespeare (probably originally painted; lost) Jean-Antoine Houdon – Bruno of Cologne (sculpture for Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome)
1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. 1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
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