1768
1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
EventsJanuary 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 Encyclopędia Britannica are published; 100 are planned BirthsJanuary 7 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (d. 1844)January 28 - King Frederick VI of Denmark February 12 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835) March 4 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen, engineer (d. 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 (d. 1849) June 9 - Samuel Slater, US industrialistNovember 21 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologianCharlotte Corday - assassinated Jean-Paul Marat Zacharias Werner, German religious poet
DeathsMarch 1 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)June 8 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologistOctober 1 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, composerThomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)The last of Steller's sea cows
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