1768

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Years:	1765 1766 1767 – 1768 – 1769 1770 1771

1768 Media

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  January 9: Philip Astley presents first modern circus.

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  Maria Edgeworth by John Downman

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  JosephBonaparte

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  Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821)

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  KarađorđePetrović,byVladimirBorovikovsky,

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  GiovanniAntonioCanal

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  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

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1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian 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
• James Cook's first voyage: 1768-1771

Births

• 12 February 1768 Francis I of Austria

Deaths

• 3 March 1768 Nicola Porpora