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Born in 1766:
English
economist
Thomas Malthus
.
English
chemist
John Dalton
.
English
composer
Samuel Wesley
.
English chemist and
physicist
William Wollaston
.
English
geologist
John Farey
.
Scottish inventor
Charles Macintosh
French
author
Anne Louise Germaine Necker later
Madame de Staël
-
Holstein
.
French poet
Antoine Vincent Arnault
.
English composer
Thomas Roseingrave
.
American
ornithologist
Alexander Wilson
.
Thomas Bruce, 7th
Earl of Elgin
, thief of the
friezes
from the
Parthenon
in
Athens
.
Died in 1766:
English
typographer
William Caslon
.
Isabella Farnese
, queen of
Spain
1714
-
1746
, mother of King Charles III of Spain.
Scottish
poet
and
essayist
James Grainger
King
Frederik V
of
Denmark
.
Stanislas Leszczynski
, Duke of
Lorraine
and one-time King of
Poland
.
Events of 1766:
William Pitt
makes a remarkable speech to
Parliament
against the
Stamp Act
Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but issues a
Declaratory Act
stating that the Colonies do not have a right to form assemblies of their own.
Pitt forms a
coalition government
, becoming
prime minister
for the second time.
Spain officially takes control of
Louisiana
with the arrival of its first governor,
Antonio de Ulloa
.
the
Trent
-
Mersey
canal
allows water travel all the way across England.
A border war breaks out between
Burma
and
China
.
1765
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1766
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1767
1765
1767
Thomas Birch
Monarchs of Denmark
Rijeka
1627
William Pitt
Cathedral Church of St. Paul
1743
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