* 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 )

* December 2 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish military leader ( b. 1768 )

Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko ( 1768 – 1844 )-Polish general and politician.

* 1768 – Polish nobles formed Bar Confederation.

The Bar Confederation of 1768 was a szlachta rebellion directed against Russia and the Polish king, fought to preserve Poland's independence and in support of szlachtas traditional causes.

Adding to the chaos was a Ukrainian Cossack and peasant rebellion, the Koliyivschyna, which erupted in 1768 and resulted in massacres of noblemen ( szlachta ), Jews, Uniates, and Catholic priests before it was put down by Polish and Russian troops.

In 1768, Kutuzov fought in Poland, after the Polish Szlachta — the Polish noble class — rebelled against Russia.

As battle-tested as he was, Suvorov next served in Poland during the Confederation of Bar, dispersed the Polish forces under Pułaski, captured Kraków ( 1768 ) paving the way for the first partition of Poland between Austria, Prussia and Russia, and reached the rank of major-general.

The Bar Confederation (; 1768 – 1772 ) was an association of Polish nobles ( szlachta ) formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and against King Stanisław August Poniatowski and Polish reformers who were attempting to limit the power of the Commonwealth's magnates ( wealthy szlachta ).

* Sandomierz Synagogue, built in 1768 of brick in the Polish Baroque style

In one fortified town called Bar near the Ottoman border an armed confederation was created on the 29 February 1768, lead by a landed Polish noble named Cadmir Pulaski.

Gniezno Voivodeship ( Polish: Województwo Gnieźnieńskie, Latin: Palatinatus Gnesnensis ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland for a short time from 1768, when it was cut from the Kalisz Voivodeship, to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

Ludwik Mateusz Dembowski ( b. 1768 in Góra, Poland-1812 in Valladolid, Spain ), was a Polish general and traveler.

In the 18th century, the introduction of Cardinal Laws in 1768 was an important step towards codifying the existing Polish law.

* Ludwik Mateusz Dembowski ( 1768 – 1812 ), Polish general

Jędrzej Śniadecki ( archaic ; 30 November 1768 – 12 May 1838 ) was a Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist.

In 1768, during the Koliyivschyna Rebellion, the Polish garrison was destroyed by the forces of Maksym Zalizniak.

In 1768, members of the Sapieha family obtained recognition of the princely title from the Polish Sejm.

As one of the first Polish corporations Kompania Manufaktur Welnianych issued its first 120 shares in 1768.

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

* April 29 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, British general ( b. 1768 )

* Leonard Covington ( 1768 – 1813 ), US congressman and US general in War of 1812 ; namesake of various US cities

For the 1768 general election, Henry Fox bought his son the West Sussex constituency of Midhurst, though Charles was still nineteen and technically ineligible for Parliament.

In 1768, he was elected to the House of Commons for Preston, and for the next few years he occupied himself chiefly with his parliamentary duties, in which he was remarkable for his general outspokenness and, in particular, for his attacks on Lord Clive, who was at the time considered the nation's leading soldier.

In the 19th century, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ), Wilhelm Dilthey ( 1833 – 1911 ) and others expanded the discipline of hermeneutics beyond mere exegesis and turned it into a general humanistic discipline.

Of much greater importance was the work entitled Monumenti antichi inediti (" Unpublished monuments of antiquity ", 1767 – 1768 ), prefaced by a Trattato preliminare, which presented a general sketch of the history of art.

# Monumenti antichi inediti ( 1767 – 1768 ), prefaced by a Trattato preliminare, presenting a general sketch of the history of art.

From 1768 to 1776, he was for twelve years Crown Prosecutor ( which is attorney general ) for Carlisle ( Cumberland County ), until 1778 when he was elected to the provincial legislature of his state.

Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston ( February 1, 1768 – June 12, 1828 ) was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish descent, and a general officer in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars.

Born in Douai of an upper-class family, he entered the legal profession and became successively lawyer to the general council of Artois, procureur to the parlement of Douai, maître des requêtes, intendant of Metz ( 1768 ) and of Lille ( 1774 ).

Phipps was elected to Parliament in the 1768 general election as Member for the constituency of Lincoln.

Only in a reign of Catherine the Great in 1768 troops of general Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben were sent to join forces of King Heraclius II of Georgia who hoped to reconquer the Ottoman-held southern Georgian lands in conjunction with Russia.

* Lev Mikhailovich Yashvil ( 1768 – 1836 )-artillery general during the Napoleonic Wars.

He was born on January 28, 1768 in Mayenne, France where his father was the general civil judge and lieutenant of police.

At the general election in March 1768, he was returned for Bridgnorth, and continued to sit for that borough until his death.