15 August: Calder arrives in Caracas. He sets up a studio at the metal shop of the Universidad Central de Venezuela and sees Acoustic Ceiling installed in Aula Magna for the first time. Louisa plans to join Calder in Caracas, but a tornado hits Connecticut and causes extensive flooding; she cancels her trip. (CF, passport; Calder 1966, 242)

11-25 September: Carlos Raul Villanueva arranges "Exposicion Calder" at Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. (Calder 1966, 242; CF, exhibition file)

12-13 September: Calder leaves Caracas, arriving in New York en route to Roxbury. (CF, passport)

19 October: The Calders arrive in France for the marriage of their daughter, Sandra, to Jean Davidson. (CF, passport; Calder 1966, 246)

28 October: Sandra Calder and Jean Davidson are married in Sache.

9 November: The Calders and Davidsons leave Paris and arrive in Germany, where Calder has been commissioned to make a stabile for the American Consulate in Frankfurt. The Calders stay at the Frankfurter Hof. He works with the bridge builders, Fries et Cie, to construct the monumental stabile Hextopus. (Calder 1966, 247)

16 November: The Calders return to France by car. (CF, passport)

19-20 November: From Paris, the Calders take a train to Brussels. They fly to New York and return to Roxbury. (CF, passport)

December: Pantheon Books publishes A Bestiary, edited by Richard Wilbur, with illustrations by Calder. (CF, project file)

6 February-10 March: Perls Galleries, New York, exhibits "Calder." This is Calder's first show with his new dealers, Klaus and Dolly Perls. (CF, exhibition file)