1766

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