Calendar of Literary Facts
1766
- The Rockingham ministry repeals the Stamp Act, but passes the Declaratory Act
- Lord Rockingham cedes power in Britain’s Parliament to a ministry headed by William Pitt the elder
- The Townshend Acts, which entail a tax on many imported articles, is strongly resisted in America
- Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield
- Thomas Malthus is born (February 17)
