History
1766
General
Population: 856 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Oliver Goldsmith, Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg formulates principles of "Sturm and Drang",
Wieland (psychological novel), Adam Ferguson (civil society), Lessing (against Winckelmann's theories of ancient art)
Art includes Diderot "Essai sur la Peinture", EM Falconet "Monument to Peter the Great", Fragonard "The Swing"
Music includes Haydn
- Science: Henry Cavendish discovers relative density of hydrogen
- Technology: Franklin invents bifocals
- Deaths: Architect Dominikus Zimmerman, Composer Nicola Porpora, Architect Johann Michael Fischer, Historian Thomas Birgh, Chemist MW Lemonossov,
Frederick V of Denmark, Stanislas Leszczynski or Lorraine,
Asia
- Hyderabad: (Pakistan/Mysore?) Nizam Ali of Hyderabad cedes Northern Circars and Madras to Great Britain
- India: Famine in Bengal
- Japan: Earthquake and tsunamis
- Philippines: Eruption of Mt. Mayon produces tornadoes, floods, and landslides
Europe
- Denmark: Death of Frederick V - mad Christian VII rules
- France: Duchy of Lorraine incorporated
- German States: Tobacco monopoly in Prussia
- Great Britain: Pitt made Earl of Chatham – forms a ministry
Theater Royal in Bristol opens
First paved sidewalks laid in Westminster London
- Russia: Czarina Catherine the Great creates freedom of religion
Pacific
- General: Louis de Bougainville sets out on voyage to Pacific where he discovers Tahiti – Solomon Islands and New Guinea
General
- Finance: Repeal of Stamp Act but Declaratory Act states Britain's right to tax American colonies
- Politics: Declaratory Act of 1766 gives Brits absolute rights over colonies
Sugar Act (v 3.0) Reduces sugar taxes but hurts merchants
East
- General: Mason-Dixon line drawn by two English surveyors (hence the name) marking boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland
Rutgers University founded
- Pennsylvania: The "Pumpkin Flood" on the Susquehanna River