1768 Calendar
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1768 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1768
– In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
May 10, 1768
– John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
June 21, 1768
– James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
August 19, 1768
– Saint Isaac’s Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
August 25, 1768
– James Cook begins his first voyage.
August 26, 1768
– Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
November 5, 1768
– Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
December 1, 1768
– The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
December 6, 1768
– The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
December 28, 1768
– King Taksin’s coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
Who Were Born On 1768?
January 7, 1768
– Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
February 13, 1768
– Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
March 21, 1768
– Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
May 17, 1768
– Caroline of Brunswick, German-born Queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1821)
June 9, 1768
– Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
August 17, 1768
– Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
August 30, 1768
– Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
October 13, 1768
– Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
November 13, 1768
– Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
November 21, 1768
– Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834)