* 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 )

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

James Monroe married Elizabeth Kortright Monroe ( 1768 – 1830 ), daughter of Laurence Kortright and Hannah Aspinwall Kortright, on February 16, 1786, in New York City.

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

The orbiter is named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery ( 1768 – 1771 ).

James Cook succeeded in circumnavigating the world ( 1768 – 71 ) in HM Bark Endeavour without losing a single man to scurvy, but his suggested methods, including a diet of sauerkraut and wort of malt, were of limited value.

* 1768 – 1779: James Cook mapped the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean and discovered many Pacific Islands

* June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician ( d. 1768 )

He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage ( 1768 – 1771 ).

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who voyaged between 1766 and 1769, and James Cook, who voyaged from 1768 to 1779, carried out their explorations in the South Pacific, information on the oceans themselves formed part of the reports.

Stowaway, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768.

Dolley Payne Todd Madison ( May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849 ) was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

His younger brother James succeeded him in this post when he relinquished the role in 1768 in order to devote more time to his elected office as Member of Parliament for Kinross-shire.

Some say it is named for James Yancey ( 1768 – 1829 ).

* James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton ( c. 1703 – 1768 )

A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was the son of James Grattan MP, of Belcamp Park, County Dublin ( d. 1766 ), and Mary ( 1724 – 1768 ), youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Marlay ( 1691 – 1756 ), Attorney-General of Ireland, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ( Ireland ).

The Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom | Act of Parliament for construction of the Coventry Canal under James Brindley was passed in 1768, and runs via Nuneaton and Atherstone to Fradley Junction near Lichfield.

James Alexander Haldane ( 14 July 1768 – 8 February 1851 ) was a Scottish independent church leader.

In 1768 James Finlay from Montreal built a post.

James Dance made another adaptation in 1768, soon followed by Richard Cumberland's version at Drury Lane in 1771, in which the dying Timon gives his daughter Evadne, not present in Shakespeare's original, to Alcibiades.

Keir had become friends with Matthew Boulton, and in the autumn of 1768 he first met James Watt at Boulton's house.

* James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton ( 1702 – 1768 ), Scottish astronomer and peer

He was the second son and fourth child of James Colvin ( b. 1768 ), a merchant with Colvin, Bazett & Co. of London and Calcutta.

In 1768 Solander and his assistant Herman Spöring were employed by Joseph Banks, to join him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Endeavour.

The couple produced five children: Frederick, Augusta ( 1768 ), William Henry ( 1769 ), Henry Jr. ( 1771 ), and Harriet ( 1772 ).

In the next fifteen years they would have eight children: Ithamar in 1752, Nahum ( 1754 ), Sara ( 1756 ), Thomas ( 1758 ), Artemas Jr. ( 1762 ), Henry Dana ( 1768 ), Martha ( 1760 ) and Maria ( 1764 ).

A son, Roger Sherman, Jr. ( 1768 – 1856 ), a 1787 graduate of Yale College served in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1810 – 1811.

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

:* Elijah Howe, Jr. ( 1768 – 1816 ), son of

Philip was raised in Monmouth County, New Jersey where he studied under William Tennent, Jr .. His father died in 1767, and he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, as a sophomore in 1768 to study for the ministry.

Bell, Jr., “ William Henry ( 1729 – 1786 ),” in Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume One: 1743 – 1768 ( Philadelphia, 1997 ), 349 – 61.

* Asa Danforth Jr. ( 1768 – 1821 ), Upper Canada highway engineer.

John and Sarah had three children, Anna Cabot ( 1768 – 1810 ), John Lowell, Jr. ( 1769 – 1840 ) and Sarah Champney Lowell ( 1771 – 1851 ).

Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. ( October 1, 1768 – June 20, 1828 ) was a planter, soldier, and politician from Virginia.

In 1768, Judge Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., purchased the house from Barnard's nephew.