The temperature on May 16, 1766 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
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