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1768 Calendar

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•  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.

•  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)
•  May 20, 1768 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
•  July 27, 1768 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
•  August 6, 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
•  August 30, 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
•  September 4, 1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French diplomat (d. 1848)
•  October 26, 1768 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
•  November 8, 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
•  November 30, 1768 – Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)