Editing 1766 (section)

=== 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>