1768
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This article is about the year 1768.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1730s 1740s 1750s – 1760s – 1770s 1780s 1790s |
| Years: | 1765 1766 1767 – 1768 – 1769 1770 1771 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1768 MDCCLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2521 |
| Armenian calendar | 1217 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6518 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -76–-75 |
| Bengali calendar | 1175 |
| Berber calendar | 2718 |
| British Regnal year | 8 Geo. 3 – 9 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2312 |
| Burmese calendar | 1130 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7276–7277 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十一月十二日 (4404/4464-11-12) — to —
戊子年十一月廿三日(4405/4465-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 1484–1485 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1760–1761 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5528–5529 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1824–1825 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1690–1691 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4869–4870 |
| Holocene calendar | 11768 |
| Iranian calendar | 1146–1147 |
| Islamic calendar | 1181–1182 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiwa 5 (明和5年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4101 |
| Minguo calendar | 144 before ROC 民前144年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2311 |
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Year 1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London.
- February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Representatives and sent to the other Thirteen Colonies. Refusal to revoke the letter will result in dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly and (from October) the occupation of Boston by the British Army (resisted by the citizens).
- May 10 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes protesters to riot; in the Southwark district of London, troops fire on the mob, killing seven, the Massacre of St George's Fields.[1]
- May 15 – After the Treaty of Versailles, the island of Corsica is ceded by Genoa to France.
[edit] July–December
- August 8 – James Cook departs from Plymouth on his first voyage of discovery.[2]
- December 1 – The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
- December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.[3]
- December 21 – King Prithvi Narayan Shah unifies several small kingdoms to establish the modern-day Nepal.
[edit] Date unknown
- The Petit Trianon, originally designed for Madame de Pompadour, is completed in the park of the Palace of Versailles and inaugurated by Louis XV of France.
- New Smyrna, Florida, the largest attempt at colonization by the British in the New World, is founded by Dr. Andrew Turnbull.
- A Secretary of State for the colonies is appointed in Britain.
- Louis XV of France appoints René de Maupeou as chancellor and orders him to crush the judicial opposition.
- Bougainville Strait is discovered.
- First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica, edited by William Smellie, are published in Edinburgh; one hundred are planned.
- The Steller's sea cow, discovered on Bering Island in 1741, is driven to extinction.
[edit] 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 – Tecumseh (d. 1813)
- March 21 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
- March 22 – Melesina Trench, Irish born writer and socialite (d. 1827)
- May 3 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
- 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)
- September 23 – William Wallace, Scottish Mathematician (d. 1843)
- October 2 – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
- November 3 – Karađorđe Petrović, Serbs leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, and the founder of the Serbian House of Karađorđević (d. 1817)
- November 18 – Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (d. 1823)
- November 18 – José Marchena Ruiz de Cueto, Spanish writer (d. 1821)
- November 21 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834)
[edit] 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 19 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- April 29 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (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 3 – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
- 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, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
- December 8 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (b. 1702)
- December 20 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
[edit] References
- ^ "St. George's Field Riot". Spartacus. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LONstgeorge.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
- ^ "Cook's Journal: Daily Entries, 7 August 1768". Archived from the original on 23 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070923210354/http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17680807.html. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
