1768

Years:
1765 1766 1767 - 1768 - 1769 1770 1771
Decades:
1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1768 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths

1768 was a Leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

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 Encyclopædia Britannica are published; 100 are planned

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 10 - Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
April 29 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (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 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, English statesman (b. 1693)
December 8 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (b. 1702)
December 20 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)