What day of the week was July 1, 1766?

The day of the week July 1st, 1766 fell on was a Tuesday.

Jean-François de la Barre the a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.