1768

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Years: 1765 1766 1767 - 1768 - 1769 1770 1771

Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Template:C18YearInTopic

1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

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
• France buys Corsica from Genoa
• 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

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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)af:1768

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