This page relates to the year 1766 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • Regulator Movement in North Carolina between 1766 and 1771: the white farmers organize themselves in order to be opposed to the rich person administrators of the colony. They block the collection of the taxes and the seizure of those which did not discharge any. Lawsuits are stopped at the time of riots.

  • Revolts of farmers against the great feudal properties of the State of New York (County of Dutchess).

Canada

  • January 21st: Jean-Olivier Briand becomes bishop of Quebec.
  • June 28th: The governor James Murray, ridges some with the systematic hostility of the British element of the colony which criticizes its initiatives in favor of the French Canadians (maintenance of the French legislation, nomination of a catholic bishop), leaves the Canada.
  • July 1st: An ordinance of Paulus Æmilius Irving, acting as president of the Council of the Province of Quebec, orders that the causes or civil proceedings between subjects born British envisage a jury exclusively made up of subjects born British; that those between French Canadian subjects are held in front of a jury exclusively made up of French Canadians; and that those joining together a British and a French Canadian obtain a made up jury half-half of British and French Canadian subjects.

Oceania

Asia

  • Japan: Movement loyal supporter at the Court of Kyôto preaching the re-establishment of the full powerss for the emperor. The Bakufu intervenes and represses any project formed in this direction.
  • Four attempts at invasions of the Burma by the China are put in failure between 1766 and 1769.
  • the China account 182  076  000 inhabitants.

Africa

  • Beginning of the reign of Ngolo Diarra, king of the Royaume will bambara of Ségou.

Europe

  • January 1st: Died of Jacques François Stuart. Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes applicant jacobite with the throne of the the United Kingdom.

  • January 14th: Beginning of the reign of Christian VII of Denmark, king of Denmark and Norway (fine in 1808).
  • March 8th, United Provinces: In the majority of Guillaume V of Orange-Nassau, the duke of Brunswick sees his any power confirmed with the United Provinces by an act of the council.
    • Of the political tendencies takes shape: the “orangists”, friends of the prince, join together, under a program of centralized unification monarchical, part of the landed gentry and the urban popular classes, sailors and professionals, linked in a Calvinisme rigorous. The party known as “of the Regents” (Herren) gathers the partisans of the General states, the provincial States, the urban bodies, i.e. of the constitution of the republic of the United Provinces. Socially resulting from the mediums of business, the trade, manufacture and the men with talents, they are moderate and tolerant calvinists. Politically, they control the capacity thanks to the electoral system and support the Large-boarder elected every five years.
  • July 30th: Beginning of the ministry whig of William Pitt Old the, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (fine in 1768). It starts austerity measures against the American colonies.

  • Jacquerie into High Silesia.
  • the Council of State of Vienna tries to apply to the Hungary an economic policy similar to that which the Great Britain imposed on its North-American colonies. The crisis is avoided thanks to the wisdom of Marie-Therese.

Spain

  • March 23rd: Beginning of the Motín de Esquilache , popular riot and xenophobe who leads to the reference of the sicilian minister (it had wanted, to ensure the safety Madrid, to prohibit the port of the hat on broad board and the large cape).
  • April 11th: The count d' Aranda (1718 - 1798), chief of the “Aragonese party”, replaces Esquilache as president of the council of Castille (fine in 1773) and animates a policy of reform of the kingdom.

  • Mediation of the French minister Choiseul in a conflict hispano-British relative to enormous debts of Madrid towards London. Later, it alleviates the anger of Spain with respect to the British who occupy the archipelago of the Falklands.
  • Distribution of communal between the peasants.
  • the hospital San Fernando, at Madrid, puts beggars at work.

France

  • Frozen of olive-trees in Provence. Series of poor harvests of corn of 1766 with 1776 due to misty and wet summers.

  • February 23rd: The Duchies of Lorraine and Bar are integrated into the Kingdom of France by Choiseul following the death of Stanislas Leszczyński, Duc of Lorraine and Bar in title and ex-king of Poland.
  • March 3rd: speech of Scourging.
    • Political crisis enters the privileged people and monarchy: in 1763, the Parliament of Brittany and its public prosecutor, Chalotais, had refused to record the project of Cadastre of Bertin. The commander-in-chief, the duke of Pivot, imposes the edict on order of Versailles, in a “Lit of justice”. Chalotais, shown, is imprisoned. The States of Brittany make common cause with the Parliament and in 1765, the Parliament of Rennes resigns: the course of justice is stopped. The Parlement of Paris takes makes and causes for that of Rennes, which causes the “bed of justice” held by Louis XV the March 3rd 1766, during which the king makes a speech which recalls with strength the theory of monarchical sovereignty (speech of Scourging). In December however, the King extinguishes purely and simply the lawsuit Chalotais, which leaves the Bastille.
  • April 10th: Choiseul with the Foreign affairs. Choiseul-Praslin, his/her cousin, with the Navy (end in 1770).
  • May 3rd and August 10th: Creation of the contest of aggregation, to compensate for the closing of the colleges Jesuits.
  • July 1st: With Abbeville, the Chevalier of the Bar undergoes the torment of the criminals of divine lese-majesty; the pronounced sorrow with Abbeville is confirmed by the Parlement of Paris.
  • July 31st: Creation of the commission of regular the, formed archbishops and advisers of State, which removes nine monastic religious orders and more four hundred houses of which utility, even the existence, do not seem any more obvious (1780).
  • November 16th: Lawsuit Chalotais.

  • Engagement between Marie-Antoinette and the future Louis XVI.
  • frontier Agreements with the duchy of the Double-decker.
  • Calonne, intendant with Metz (fine in 1778).
  • Construction under Choiseul-Praslin of 165 warships, including 66 large vessels among most modern of the world.

Poland

  • With the Diet of Poland, the chancellor Andrzej Zamoyski proposes the limitation of the liberum veto . The preserving tycoons form the confederation of Radom which requests the assistance of the Russia and of the Prussia and requires the re-establishment of the traditional constitution. The king resists and the Russian army encircles the following Diet. Without army, Stanislas Poniatowski yields and returns the “confederation” which supported it. The envoy of the tsarina, the prince Repnine then raises the problem of the “dissidents”, the Protestants and the orthodoxe ones who are entitled private summers their to the 17th century and requires the restitution of it. The Diet refuses. The Russians intervene despite everything and make pressure to obtain the convocation of a new Diet (1767 - 1768). Two bishops and the hetman are off-set and assembled does not meet during four years. A “delegation” of the Diet which sits in the interval of the sessions capitulates and accepts the respect of the fundamental laws: liberum veto , freedom of the elections, exclusive right of the nobility exert loads of State and have land fields, right to refuse obedience with the king who would violate the Constitution, confirmation of the capacity seigneurial on the peasants. In consideration of which the restrictions on the rights are abolished for the dissidents.

Russia

  • Revolt of the Cosaques of the Iaïk, in the the Ural, which refuse to provide quotas for the war against the Turkey.

  • imperial Proclamation calling with the election of an assembly to reform the legislation.

  • Catherine II of Russia proposes at the Free society political economy a contest on the suppression of serfdom and its consequences. The company receives 120 memories.

  • Foundation of the Files of the Foreign affairs.

Art & culture

See also: 1766 with the theater, 1766 in literature

  • the young person Mozart occurs for the first time at Paris in the prince of Conti.

Science & technology

  • October: Opening of the School veterinary surgeon d' Alfort.

  • the Nautical Almanach of the Office of Longitudes of London provides the first reliable method of determination of longitude for the navigators.
  • the German Astronome Johann Daniel Titius proposes his law of distribution of planets known under the name of Loi of Titius-Bode.
  • the British chemist Henry Cavendish insulates the Gaz Hydrogène for the first time and determines its density.
  • the British naturalist Joseph Banks studies the plants and the insects of Newfoundland.

Births in 1766

Death in 1766

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