Editing 1766 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Charles Edward Stuart]] ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] claimant to the throne of Great Britain, as King Charles III, and figurehead for [[Jacobitism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1766|title=Historical Events for Year 1766 &#124; OnThisDay.com|website=Historyorb.com|date=October 2, 1766 |access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Christian VII of Denmark|Christian VII]] becomes King of [[Denmark-Norway]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Harald Jørgensen|title=The Unfortunate Queen Caroline Mathilda's Last Years 1772-75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBagAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=C.A. Reitzels Forlag A/S|isbn=978-87-7421-629-2|page=9}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)|Burmese–Siamese War]]: Outside of the walls of the Thailand capital of [[Ayutthaya (city)|Ayutthaya]], tens of thousands of invaders from [[Burma]] (under the command of General Ne Myo Thihapate and General Maha Nawatra) are confronted by Thai defenders led by General Phya Taksin.<ref>{{cite book|first=Micheal|last=Clodfelter|title=Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015|publisher=McFarland|year=2017|page=116}}</ref> The defenders are overwhelmed and the survivors take refuge inside Ayutthaya. The siege continues for 15 months before the Burmese attackers collapse the walls by digging tunnels and setting fire to debris. The city falls on April 9, 1767, and King [[Ekkathat]] is killed.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Legacy or Overhang: Historical Memory in Myanmar–Thai Relations|first=Maung Aung|last=Myoe|title=Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|year=2015|page=113}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; An observer in [[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]], [[Royal Colony of North Carolina|North Carolina]] reports to the [[Edinburgh]] newspaper ''Caledonian Mercury'' that three ships have been seized by British men-of-war, on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps. The strict enforcement causes seven other ships to leave Wilmington for other ports.
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[John Mills (encyclopedist)|John Mills]] is elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]], with [[Benjamin Franklin]] as one of his sponsors.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; Protesting against the [[Stamp Act 1765]], members of the New York City [[Sons of Liberty]] travel to Pennsylvania and set fire to a British supply of tax stamps before the stamps can be taken to distributors in the province of Maryland.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Sons of Liberty|title=Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States|first=Mary Ellen|last=Snodgrass|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|page=289}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Meermin slave mutiny|''Meermin'' Slave Mutiny]]: Captive [[Malagasy people]] seize a [[Dutch East India Company]] [[slave ship]] in the Indian Ocean.
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The ''[[Pennsylvania Gazette]]'' reports that a British sloop off Wilmington, North Carolina, has seized a sloop sailing from [[Philadelphia]], and another sailing from [[Saint Kitts|Saint Christopher]], on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps. In response, local residents threaten to burn a Royal Man-of-War attempting to deliver stamps to Wilmington, forcing the ship to return to the mouth of the Cape Fear River.
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Lorraine (province)|Lorraine]] and [[Duchy of Bar|Bar]] become French again, on the death of [[Stanisław Leszczyński]], King of Poland and last [[Duke of Lorraine]].
* [[February]] &ndash; Ferocious [[wolf]] attacks occur in France, such as the [[Beast of Gévaudan]] or Wolves of Périgord.
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Antonio de Ulloa]], the first Spanish governor of [[Louisiana (New Spain)|Louisiana]], arrives in [[New Orleans]]. 
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: The British Parliament repeals the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which has been very unpopular in the British colonies; the persuasion of [[Benjamin Franklin]] is considered partly responsible. The [[Declaratory Act]] asserts the right of Britain to bind the colonies in all other respects.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dennis B. Fradin|title=The Stamp Act of 1765|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqJ8CvEuktUC&pg=PA33|date=15 January 2010|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-4696-5|pages=33}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; Seventeen days after the Stamp Act's repeal in London, news reaches America of the decision.<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles G. |last=Steffen|title=The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1984|page=57}}</ref>
* [[April 9]]
** African slaves are imported directly into the American colony of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] for the first time, as the sloop ''Mary Brow'' arrives in [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] with 78 captives imported from [[Saint-Louis, Senegal]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Transatlantic Slave Trade Comes to Georgia|first=James A.|last=McMillin|title=Slavery and Freedom in Savannah|publisher=University of Georgia Press|year=2014|page=15}}</ref> 
** American botanist [[John Bartram]] completes his first exploration and cataloging of North American plants after more than nine months.<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul R.|last=Wonning|title=A Year of Colonial American History: 366 Days of United States Colonial History|publisher=Mossy Feet Books|year=2018|page=133}}</ref> 
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Charles III of Spain|King Carlos III of Spain]] issues a royal [[Cédula de identidad|cédula]] from [[Aranjuez]] to round up all ethnic [[Chinese in the Philippines]] and to move them to ghettoes in various provinces.<ref>{{cite book|first=Nicanor G.|last=Tiongson|title=The Women of Malolos|publisher=Ateneo University Press|year=2004|page=18}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] &ndash; In a paper read to the [[Royal Society]], British theoretical chemist [[Henry Cavendish]] first describes his process of producing what he refers to as "inflammable air" by dissolving base metals such as iron, zinc and tin in a flask of sulfuric acid or [[hydrochloric acid]], drawing the conclusion that the vapor that was released is different from air. Seven years later, French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier]] bestows the name "[[hydrogen]]" on the gas.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ebbe|last=Almqvist|title=History of Industrial Gases|publisher=Springer|year=2003|page=21}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] &ndash; The [[Bristol Old Vic|Theatre Royal, Bristol]], opens in England. Also this year in England, the surviving ''[[Georgian Theatre (Stockton-on-Tees)]]'' opens as a playhouse.
* [[June 4]] &ndash; On the occasion of the 28th birthday of [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]], members of the [[Sons of Liberty]] in Manhattan erect a [[Liberty pole#American Revolution|liberty pole]] as a protest for the first time. The historic symbol, a tall "wooden pole with a [[Phrygian cap]]" is placed "on the Fields somewhere between Broadway and Park Row".<ref>{{cite book|first=Sally|last=Webster|title=The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition: Liberty Enshrined|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|page=59}}</ref> British soldiers cut down the pole in August.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[François-Jean de la Barre]], a young French nobleman, is [[torture]]d and [[Decapitation|beheaded]], before his body is burnt on a [[pyre]], along with a copy of [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Dictionnaire philosophique]]'' nailed to his torso, supposedly for the crime of not saluting a [[Roman Catholic]] religious procession in [[Abbeville]], and for other sacrileges, including desecrating a crucifix.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; During the occupation of New York, members of the 28th Foot Regiment of the British Army chop down the liberty pole that was erected by the Sons of Liberty on June 4. The Sons of Liberty put up a second pole the next day, and that pole is cut down on August 22.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mike|last=Rapport|title=The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution|publisher=Basic Books|year=2017}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; A hurricane sweeps across the French island colony of [[Martinique]], killing more than 400 people and destroying the plantation owned by Joseph-Gaspard de La Pagerie, the father of the future French [[Empress Joséphine]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Hibbert|author-link=Christopher Hibbert|title=Napoleon's Women|publisher=W. W. Norton|year=2003|page=2}}</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; The revolt in [[Quito]] (at this time part of Spain's  [[Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada]]; the modern-day capital of [[Ecuador]]) is ended peacefully as royal forces enter the city under the command of [[Guayaquil]] Governor Pedro Zelaya. Rather than seeking retribution from the Quito citizens over their insurrection that has broken the monopoly over the sale of the liquor [[aguardiente]], Zeleaya oversees a program of reconciliation.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jaime E.|last=Rodriguez O.|title=Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2018|page=62}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; The position of [[List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church|Patriarch of the Serbs]], established on April 9, 1346 as the authority over the [[Serbian Orthodox Church]], is abolished by order of [[Mustafa III|Sultan Mustafa III]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]; the patriarchate is not re-established until [[1920]] following the creation of [[Yugoslavia]] at the end of World War One.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Yugoslavia|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1936|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year=1936|page=1388}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[John Penn (governor)|John Penn]], the Colonial Governor of Pennsylvania and one of the four Penn family owners of the Pennsylvania land grant, issues a proclamation forbidding British American colonist residents from building settlements on lands in the west "not yet purchased of the Nations" of the [[Iroquois]] Indians.<ref>{{cite book|first=Kevin|last=Kenny|title=Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|page=210}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Gustav III of Sweden|Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden]] weds Princess [[Sophia Magdalena of Denmark]]. They become King Gustav III and Queen Consort Sophia of Sweden upon his ascension to the throne in 1771.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mary Ellen|last=Snodgrass|title=World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence|location=London|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|page=633}}</ref>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[France]] formally cedes its rights to the Malouines Islands to Spain. On March 24, Spain renames the islands the Malvinas, and in 1833, the United Kingdom re-colonises the recently abandoned territory and renames it the [[Falkland Islands]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Roberto C.|last=Laver|title=The Falklands/Malvinas Case: Breaking the Deadlock in the Anglo-Argentine Sovereignty Dispute|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff|year=2001}}</ref>
* November &ndash; [[Raja Lumu]] consolidates his claim to the [[Selangor Sultanate]] by marriage to the niece of the Sultan of Perak.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Selangor|first=J. M.|last=Gullick|publisher=Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society|date=2004|isbn=9679948102}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] &ndash; The last Colonial governor of [[New Jersey]], [[William Franklin]], signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed [[Rutgers University]]).
* [[November 27]] &ndash; A British sloop-of-war is searching all vessels passing near [[Cape Lookout (North Carolina)|Cape Lookout]], North Carolina, and some vessels have been seized, according to an observer in New York City, in the [[Province of New York]], reporting to the ''Pennsylvania Gazette''.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] returns to [[Salzburg]], after the [[Mozart family grand tour]] of Europe.
* [[December 2]] &ndash; The ''Law on the Freedom of Printing'' abolishes [[censorship in Sweden]] and guarantees [[freedom of the press]], making [[Sweden]] the first country of the world to introduce constitutional protection of press freedom, and to pass wide-ranging [[freedom of information legislation]].
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[James Christie (auctioneer)|James Christie]] holds the first sale at [[Christie's]] auction house in London.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Mapuche]]s in [[Colonial Chile|Chile]] launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the [[Mapuche uprising of 1766]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last       = Barros Arana
 | first      = Diego
 | author-link1 = Diego Barros Arana 
 | title      = Historia General de Chile
 | volume     = VI
 | url        = http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9008.html
 | year       = 2000
 | orig-year   = 1886
 | edition    = 2
 | publisher  = [[Editorial Universitaria]]
 | location   = Santiago, Chile
 | language   = es
 |page=235
  }}</ref>

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* Childsburgh, the [[Orange County, North Carolina]] seat laid out as Corbin Town in [[1754]], and renamed in [[1759]], is renamed [[Hillsborough, North Carolina|Hillsborough]], in honor of [[Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire|Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, Earl of Hillsborough]].</onlyinclude>
* Dr. [[James Fordyce]]'s two-volume compendium ''[[Sermons to Young Women]]'' is published in London.