1766

events

politics

• 23. February: The duchy Lorraine is attached France.
• 10. March: The Spanish government in Madrid forbids its citizen, the round breitkrempigen hat (sombrero redondo) to carry and the long coat. Unwille in the population releases 13 days later the Madrider hat rebellion .
• 11. March: Civic equal rights of Jews in Prussia throughEdict of the Prussian king Friedrich William III.
• 18. March: The British parliament waives the stamp act , which had released in the North American colonies of resistances.
• Establishment of the banking house Rothschild in Frankfurt/Main

science

• of the mathematicians JohannHeinrich Lambert proves the Irrationalität of the number of pi (3.141592653…)

culture

• 11. February: Premiere of the opera Vologeso of Niccolò Jommelli in Ludwigsburg
• 7. April: Premiere of the opera La Nitteti of Anton Cajetan Adlgasser in Salzburg
• 23. April: Premiere of the amusing opera Les Pêcheurs of François Joseph Gossec at the Comédie Italienne in Paris
• 25. November: Premiere of the romantic and amusing opera Lisuart and Dariolette or the question and the answer of Johann Adam Hiller in Leipzig

born

• 16. January: Christian Friedrich Ammon, German Protestant theologian († 1850)
• 13. February: Thomas's Robert Malthus, British economist († 1834)
• 19. February: William Dunlap, US-American painter and writer († 1839)
• 23. February: Karoline of Humboldt, daughter of Prussian chamber president Karl Friedrich of roof deserts († 1829)
• 16. March: Johann Friedrich count von Waldeck, French second hand bookseller, Kartograf, painter and explorer († 1875)
• 28. March: Joseph Weigl, composer and conductor († 1846)
• 15. April: Friedrich load-eternally Bouterweck, German philosopher and writer († 1828)
• 22. April: Anne Germaine de Staël, French authoress († 1817)
• 29. April: Nicholas Vansittart, 1st lord Bexley, British politician and statesman († 1851)
• 1. June: Anton hare hat, Austrian actor and Komiker († 1841)
• 6. July: Alexander Wilson, Scottish Ornithologe and poet († 1813)
• 9. July: Johanna Schopenhauer, German authoress († 1839)
• 10. July: Matthieu Jean Félicité de Laval Montmorency, French general and Minister († 1826)
• 20. July: Lord Thomas Bruce, 7. Earl OF Elgin, British diplomat and archaeologist(† 1841)
• 1. August: Philipp of the Leyen, first prince of the Leyen († 1829)
• 6. August: William Hyde Wollaston, physician, physicist and chemist († 1828)
• 5. September: Maurice Jean Magdalène de Broglie,French bishop († 1821)
• 6. September: John Dalton, English natural scientist and teacher († 1844)
• 23. September: Philipp Albert Stapfer, Schweizer politician, diplomat and theologian († 1840)
• 25. September: Arm and Emmanuel you Plessis,Duke of Richelieu, French statesman († 1822)
• 9. October: Friedrich Dionys weber, böhmischer composer († 1842)
• 10. October: Leopold Maximilian count von Firmian, Fürsterzbischof of the Erzdiözese Vienna († 1831)
• 11. October: Poul Poulsen Nolsøe, national hero of the Färöer († 1809)
• 23. October: Emmanuel de Grouchy, marshal of France († 1847)
• 2. November: Josef count Radetzky, Heerführer Austria († 1858)
• 4. November: John Adam(Bounty), Meuterer on the Bounty († 1829)
• 16. November: Rodolphe Kreutzer, French Violinist, teacher, conductor and composer († 1831)
• 22. November: Charlotte of Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Schiller († 1826)
• 24. November: Friedrich wine burners, architect and building master of the classicism († 1826)

died

• 1. January: James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the throne for the Scottish and English throne (* 1688)
• 14. January: Friedrich V. (Denmark), King of Denmark and Norway (* 1723)
• 5. February: Leopold Josef Daun, Austrian field marshal (* 1705)
• 22. February: Friedrich August von Finck, Prussian general (* 1718)
• 23. February: Stanislaus I. Leszczynski, King of Poland and duke of Lorraine (* 1677)
• 4. March: Peter Thumb, Vorarlberger building master Rococo (* 1681)
• 20. March: Giovanni Pescetti, Italian composer (* 1704)
• 1. April: Johann LeonhardDober, Missionar of the gentleman Mr. brother common (* 1706)
• 7. April: Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Netherlands Philologe (* 1685)
• 26. May: Elias Hayum Mayer, yard and Milizfaktor in Mannheim (* 1709)
• 24. June: Adrien Maurice deNoailles, marshal of France (* 1678)
• 11. July: Elisabetta Farnese, queen of Spain (* 1692)
• 17. July: Giuseppe Castiglione, in China active Italian Jesuit, Missionar and painter (* 1688)
• 1. September: Peter Anich, Kartograf and Pionier of high mountain cartography (* 1723)
• 6. September: Johann Boumann, German building master (* around 1706)
• 3. November: Thomas Abbt, German writer and philosopher (* 1738)
• 5. November: ChristianErnst von Windheim, Evangelist theologian and Orientalist (* 1722)
• 11. November: Peter Joseph von Buschmann, cathedral gentleman in Cologne (* 1704)
• 16. November: Dominikus Carpenter, German Stuckateur and building master Rococo (* 1685)
• 25. November: Johann Maria Farina, Createur of the Eau de Cologne (* 1685)
• 12. December: Johann Christoph Gottsched, German scholar and writer (* 1700)
• 15. December: Carlo Tessarini, Italian Violinist and composer (* 1690)

• Jean Marc Nattier, French painter (* 1685)