1768

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

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s

Years: 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 - 1768 - 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

January 9 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London)
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
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 Encyclopaedia Brittanica are published; 100 are planned

Year in topic

Births

January 7 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (+ 1844)
January 28 - King Frederick VI of Denmark
February 12 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1835)
March 4 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen, engineer (+ 1827).
March 21 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
May 17 - Caroline of Brunswick, Queen-Consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom
May 20 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (+ 1849)
June 9 - Samuel Slater, US industrialist
November 21 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian
Charlotte Corday - assassinated Jean-Paul Marat
Zacharias Werner, German religious poet

Deaths

The last Steller's sea cows
June 8 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist
October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, composer

Monarchs/Presidents

China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)