1768
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1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Contents
Events
- Secretary of State for colonies appointed in Britain
- Massachusetts Assembly dissolved for refusing to assist collection of taxes.
- Boston citizens refuse to quarter British troops
- Gurkhas conquer Nepal
- First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica are published; 100 are planned
- James Cook sets sail on his first voyage: 1768-1771
January
- January 9 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London)
February
March
April
May
- May 10 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London
- May 15 - After the Treaty of Versailles, the island of Corsica is ceded by Genoa to France.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
- December 1 - The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
- December 21 - Nepal is united.
Ongoing events
- War of the Regulation (1764-1771)
- Captain James Cook's first voyage (1768-1771)
Births
- January 7 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (d. 1844)
- January 28 - King Frederick VI of Denmark (d. 1839)
- February 12 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
- February 13 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
- March 21 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
- March 22 - Melesina Trench, Irish born writer and socialite (d. 1827)
- May 17 - Caroline of Brunswick, queen of George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1821)
- May 17 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
- May 20 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
- June 9 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
- July 27 - Charlotte Corday. French murderess of Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
- August 6 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
- September 4 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer and diplomat (d. 1848)
- October 2 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
- November 18 - Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (d. 1823)
- November 21 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834)
Deaths
- February 1 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
- February 2 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
- February 8 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
- February 17 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
- March 1 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
- March 3 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686)
- March 18 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
- April 10 - Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- April 29 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
- June 8 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
- June 15 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
- June 19 - Benjamin Tasker, Provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
- July 6 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader
- July 24 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
- August 17 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
- September 2 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
- October 1 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
- October 28 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
- October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
- November 17 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman (b. 1693)
- December 8 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (b. 1702)
- December 20 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
- Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
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