1768
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th centuryDecades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years: 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 - 1768 - 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773
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.
- Bostin citizens refuse to quarter Brittish troops.
- France buys Corsica from Genoa
- Gurkhas conquer Nepal
- First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica are published; 100 are planned.
- January 7 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (+ 1844)
- January 28 - King Frederick VI of Denmark
- February 12 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1835)
- March 4 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen, engineer (+ 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 (+ 1849)
- June 9 - Samuel Slater, US industrialist
- November 21 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian
- Charlotte Corday - Assainated Jean-Paul Marat
- Zacharias Werner, German religous poet
- October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, composer
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
- Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)
