Sylvia Ashton-Warner follows 1963’s Teacher, a novelistic nonfiction account of teaching mixed classes of rural Maori and European schoolchildren and the unorthodox teaching methods she developed, with the 1966 novel Greenstone, an intense portrait of a family in which the European and Maori cultures collide.

The Australian Liberal (conservative) party member Malcolm Fraser becomes minister of the army in 1966.

US psychological warfare expert Colston Westbrook, in 1966, begins a three-year tour as advisor to the Vietnamese Special Police Branch under the cover of working as an employee of Pacific Architects and Engineers, the firm contracted to construct forty-four Provincial Interrogation Centers, interrogation/torture centers erected in Vietnam as part of the CIA’s soon-to-be-launched Operation Phoenix.

Westbrook had formerly served as a US advisor to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

Mao designs his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966 to replace the party-goverment military power elite with more revolutionary elements.

The forcible relocation of millions of urban teenagers into the countryside results in massive purges of the bureaucracy by the youthful and newly-indoctrinated Red Guards.

Petroleum is discovered offshore at Dubai in 1966.

Sheikh Shakhbut ibn Sultan, ruler of Abu Dhabi since 1928, is deposed in 1966 in favor of his younger brother Zayd ibn Sultan, former governor of the Abu Dhabi-controlled portion of al-Buraymi oasis.

Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies of a heart attack in 1966; Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.

Ayub Khan's signing of the Tashkent Declaration-an objectively statesmanlike act-elicits an adverse reaction in West Pakistan.

Students as well as politicians demonstrate in urban areas, and many are arrested.

The Tashkent Declaration proves to be the turning point in the political fortunes of the Ayub Khan administration.

In the early days of his presidency, Ayub had moved freely among the rural people, engaging them in individual conversations.

After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1966, however, he withdraws behind a curtain of dictatorship, becoming a remote figure in a bulletproof limousine.

Bhutto, the chief exponent of struggle against India, is relieved of office in 1966.

Mujibur Rahman (Sheikh Mujib), who had inherited the leadership of the Awami League, the major force in East Pakistan, is arrested and accused of conspiring with India.

East Pakistan's long-standing discontent with the federal government is expressed in 1966 by a movement for increased autonomy, supported by a general strike.

Zahir Shah refuses to promulgate the Political Parties Act, the Provincial Councils Act, and the Municipal Councils Act, thereby effectively blocking the institutionalization of the political processes guaranteed in the constitution.

He also refuses to appoint a Supreme Court.