| | 1 | ''''1966: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister, after the Tashkent peace talks followed by the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. |
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| | 5 | * Punjab is divided into Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. |
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| | 7 | * Devaluation of the rupee by 36. 5%. A growing number of political groups, both Left and Right, marginalise parliamentary politics and embark on violent protests. The Communists’ emphasis on extra-parliamentary ‘mass struggle’ is emulated by a variety of regionalist, ethnic and communal groups. |
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| | 9 | * The FICCI considers a proposal to raise a large election fund to support a ‘business party’. |
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| | 11 | * Ghatak joins the FTII in Pune. |
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| | 13 | * Karnataka Chief Minister Veerendra Patil initates a scheme to subsidise all films made in the state. The initial subsidy is Rs. 50,000 for b&w and Rs. 1 lakh for a colour film. |
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| | 15 | * The Dolton Press, part of B. Nagi Reddy’s publishing empire, starts the journal Bommai (edited by B. Vishwanatha Reddy) in Tamil. |
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| | 17 | * The Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime- Achievement Awards are started. |
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| | 19 | * The first Dogri film is Kumar Kuldip’s Gallan Hoyian Beetiyan. |
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| | 21 | * The North Calcutta Film Society starts the quarterly Chitravash and publishes special issues on, e. g. , Nemai Ghosh and Rajen Tarafdar. |
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| | 23 | * The Cine Club in Calcutta starts the occasional journal Kino in English. |