1766 in architecture

The year 1766 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * April 17 – James Craig's plan for the New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, wins the prize offered by the city council in January.
 * October 28 – Coldstream Bridge across the River Tweed on the England/Scotland border, designed by John Smeaton, is opened to traffic.
 * Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland, is completed.
 * Strawberry Hill House, London, designed by Horace Walpole, is completed in the Gothick style.
 * Pazo de Raxoi in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is completed.
 * Rebuilding of Potocki Palace, Warsaw, to designs by Jakub Fontana, is completed.
 * Shardeloes (country house) in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by Stiff Leadbetter, is completed.
 * New main residence at Skjoldenæsholm Castle in Denmark, possibly designed by Philip de Lange, is built.
 * Theatre Royal, Bristol, England, built by Thomas Paty to designs by James Saunders, is opened.
 * New Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is completed as an opera house.
 * St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway (Manhattan) in New York City, designed by Thomas McBean, is completed.
 * St Nikolaus church at Brohl in the Rhineland, designed by J. A. Neurohr, is built.
 * St Markus church at Pünderich in the Rhineland, designed by Paul Stähling, is built.
 * Stone Hermitage and Rozhdestvensky Bridges in Saint Petersburg are completed.

Publications

 * John Gwynn – London and Westminster Improved

Births

 * August 3 – Jeffry Wyatville, English architect (died 1840)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)
 * May 6 – Johann Michael Fischer, German architect (born 1692)
 * July 14 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (born 1674)
 * August 18 – Stiff Leadbetter, English architect (born c.1705)
 * November 16 – Dominikus Zimmermann, German rococo architect (born 1685)
 * December 20 – Giorgio Massari, Venetian baroque architect (born 1687)
 * Isaac Ware, English architect (born 1704)