1766

1766 (MDCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1766th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 766th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1766, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1766 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1766 MDCCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2519
Armenian calendar	1215 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6516
Balinese saka calendar	1687–1688
Bengali calendar	1173
Berber calendar	2716
British Regnal year	6 Geo. 3 – 7 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2310
Burmese calendar	1128
Byzantine calendar	7274–7275
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4462 or 4402     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4463 or 4403
Coptic calendar	1482–1483
Discordian calendar	2932
Ethiopian calendar	1758–1759
Hebrew calendar	5526–5527
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1822–1823
- Shaka Samvat	1687–1688
- Kali Yuga	4866–4867
Holocene calendar	11766
Igbo calendar	766–767
Iranian calendar	1144–1145
Islamic calendar	1179–1180
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 3 (明和３年)
Javanese calendar	1691–1692
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4099
Minguo calendar	146 before ROC 民前146年
Nanakshahi calendar	298
Thai solar calendar	2308–2309
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 1892 or 1511 or 739     — to — མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 1893 or 1512 or 740

Events

• March 18 – Britain repeals the Stamp Act after American protests.

Births

• February 14 – Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (died 1834)
• April 6 – Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, French Mathematician and Scholar
• April 22 – Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, French writer (died 1817)
• May 30 – Robert Darwin, Medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (died 1848)
• July 8 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died 1842)
• August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (died 1828)
• September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (died 1844)
• October 23 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (died 1847)
• November 2 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (died 1858)
• December 3 – Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in Civil War (died 1862)

Deaths