Editing 1766 (section)

=== 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>