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A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators. (18. February 1766)
Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. (5. March 1766)
American Revolution: The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act. (18. March 1766)
Jean-François Lefebvre de la Barre was a young French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. (1. July 1766)
The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). (10. November 1766)
In London, James Christie holds his first sale. (5. December 1766)
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