* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( d. 1813 )

* Joseph von Hazzi ( 1768 – 1845 ): Bavarian Privy Councillor

* 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist ( d. 1812 )

She was a daughter of Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1768 – 1816 ) and his wife Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

* 1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

* 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

* 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician ( b. 1768 )

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

Benjamin West, Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, Oil on canvas, c. 1768.

* Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield ( 1768 – 1846 ), Private Secretary to the Sovereign

Benjamin Rush ( 1745 – 1813 ), who signed the American Declaration of Independence and is considered one of the “ fathers " of American medicine, and who trained in medicine at Edinburgh University ( 1766 – 1768 ), strongly advocated “ heroic medicine ”.

First elected Speaker of the House in 1768, he secured the services of Benjamin Franklin as Georgia's agent in London.

* Benjamin Pond ( 1768 – 1814 ), American politician

Kleombrotos sent into Exile by Leonidas II, Oil on canvas, Benjamin West, c. 1768.

Benjamin Tasker, Sr. ( 1690 – June 19, 1768 ) was the 21st Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.

On his passing in 1768, Benjamin Tasker was buried in St. Anne's Churchyard in Annapolis.

Benjamin Marshall ( 14 October 1768 in Seagrave, Leicestershire – 29 January 1835 ) was an English sporting and animal painter.

* January 8 – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician ( b. 1768 )

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, GCTE, PC ( 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1856 ), was a British soldier and politician.

The second creation was for General William Carr Beresford, GCB, GCH, GCTE ( 1768 – 1856 ) as Baron Beresford, of Albuera and Dungarvan in the County of Waterford of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and was announced on 3 May 1814.

The 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix opened Kentucky to colonial settlement and established the Ohio River as a southern boundary for American Indian territory.

* 1830 – Elizabeth Monroe, American wife of James Monroe, 5th First Lady of the United States ( b. 1768 )

* April 21 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist ( b. 1768 )

* Samuel Slater ( 1768 – 1835 ), American industrialist

Among the many notable former residents of Lewes is Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ), who was employed as an excise officer in the town for a time from 1768 to 1774 when he emigrated to the American colonies.

* John Watson ( American painter ) ( 1685 – 1768 ), American portrait artist

The genus Mitchella L., was named by Carl Linnaeus after his friend John Mitchell ( 1711 – 1768 ), an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on American flora.

It was initially organized as the district of Shelburne in 1768, named in honor of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, an Irish-born British politician, who later served as Prime Minister during the American Revolutionary War.

Iroquois land until a 1768 treaty, Chester County native and American Revolutionary War figure William Montgomery purchased a plot of land in 1774 and established a trading post called Montgomery's Landing.

* HMS Sultana, a Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 – 1772

Charles Mason ( Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, April 1728 – Philadelphia, October 25, 1786 ) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States ( 1764 – 1768 ).

From November 1763 to 1768, Mason and Jeremiah Dixon established the boundary line between the American provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Before returning to England in 1768, they were both admitted to the American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, in Philadelphia.

Tecumseh ( March 1768 – October 5, 1813 ) was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy ( known as Tecumseh's Confederacy ) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812.

The position was first created in 1768 to deal with the increasingly troublesome North American colonies.

The Secretary of State for the Southern Department, the more senior, was responsible for Southern England, Wales, Ireland, the American colonies ( until 1768 when the charge was given to the Secretary of State for the Colonies ), and relations with the Roman Catholic and Muslim states of Europe.

Willie Blount ( April 18, 1768 – September 10, 1835 ) was an American politician.

Thomas Newton, Jr. ( November 21, 1768 – August 5, 1847 ) was an American politician.

* February 23-Ezra Ames, American portrait painter ( born 1768 )

It returned to the French and Indian War setting of his General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian of 1768.

* John Bird ( New York ) ( 1768 – 1806 ), American politician

The Ohio River boundary line established with Britain by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768 recognized certain lands as belonging to the Native American nations.