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| 1966 |
| | | The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles | |
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| 1966 |
| | | After a long period of obscurity, Wide Sargasso Sea brings novelist Jean Rhys back into the literary limelight | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival | |
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| 1966 |
| | | UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independence | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Alf Ramsey (manager) and Bobby Moore (captain) lead the England football team to victory in the World Cup | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Mao Zedong unleashes China's teenagers as violent Red Guards to spearhead his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in the South African parliament | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Gurindji people at the Wave Hill station walk out in protest, launching the Aboriginal land rights movement in Australia | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Whale, a cantata by English composer John Tavener, has its premiere at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta | |
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