* 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 )

* 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian ( d. 1768 )

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

* December 9 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist ( d. 1768 )

In 1768, the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann was murdered by a robber in Trieste, while on his way from Vienna to Italy.

), later set to music by more than 40 other composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse ( 1735 ), Giuseppe Arena ( 1738 ), Francesco Corradini ( 1747 ), Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1752 ), Andrea Adolfati ( 1753 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1753 ), Ignaz Holzbauer ( 1757 ), Vincenzo Legrezio Ciampi ( 1757 ), Gioacchino Cocchi ( 1760 ), Marcello Bernardini ( 1768 ), Andrea Bernasconi ( 1768 ), Pasquale Anfossi ( 1769 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1791 ).

" In 1768 in Vienna, Johann Adolph Hasse composed a serious opera on the tale, titled Piramo e Tisbe.

In 1768 the German lieutenant-general and art collector Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn acquired some of these gardens and merged them into the Wallmodengarten.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( December 9, 1717 – June 8, 1768 ) was a German art historian and archaeologist.

Johann Heinrich Lambert conjectured that pi was transcendental in 1768 in the same paper he proved its irrationality, even before the existence of transcendental numbers was proven.

When Johann Anton Güldenstädt travelled in the Russian empire's southern frontier during 1768 – 1775 at the behest of Catherine II of Russia, he was the first naturalist to catch sight of a Kirmyschak in the Caucasus.

In 1811, the brothers Johann Rudolf ( 1768 – 1825 ) and Hieronymus Meyer, sons of Johann Rudolf Meyer ( 1739 – 1813 ), the head of a rich merchant family of Aarau, with several servants and a porter picked up at Guttannen, having reached the Valais by way of the Grimsel, crossed the Beich Pass, a glacier pass over the Oberaletsch Glacier, to the head of the Lötschen valley.

" In 1768, as had been agreed, he returned to Venice, detouring again on his journey, this time to visit Johann Adolph Hasse in Vienna.

They were founded by Johann Conrad Beissel ( 1690 – 1768 ).

* 1768 – 1780 – Voyages of James Cook to the Pacific and Australia during which many birds new to science are collected by Joseph Banks and Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Conrad Beissel ( March 1, 1691 – July 6, 1768 ) was the German-born religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania.

38, which is a set of variations on the Austrian Folkslied A Schisserl und a Reindl, is åll mein Kuchlg ' schirr, used in the play Der Kaufmannsbude ( 1796 ), with music by Johann Baptist Henneberg ( 1768 – 1822 ) and text by Schikaneder ; and in the play Der Marktschreyer ( 1799 ), with music by Franz Xaver Süssmayr ( 1766 – 1803 ) and text by Friedrich Karl Lippert.

Calvert spent a good deal of time in Italy, where the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ) described him as being " one of those worn-out beings, a hipped Englishman, who had lost all physical and moral taste ".

* Johann Friedrich Kind ( 1768 – 1843 ), German dramatist

Johann Michael Vogl ( August 10, 1768 – November 19, 1840 ), was an Austrian baritone singer and composer.

Many of them were also his friends, like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whom he met in Dresden in 1768.

He was married to Maria Johann Unertl ( 1689 – 1768 ), a sister of the Privy Council Chancellor and Conference Minister Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl and niece of the Traunstein salt administrative officer Johann Zacharias von Mezger, Edler von Meggenhoven.

* December 9-Johann Joachim Winckelmann, art historian ( died 1768 )

The Apollo became one of the world's most celebrated art works when in 1755 it was championed by the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ) as the best example of the perfection of the Greek aesthetic ideal.

* Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ), German art historian and archaeologist

Winckelmann, in luxurious undress, by Anton von Maron, 1768: an engraving of an Antinous lies before him ( Schlossmuseum Weimar )

In 1768 Winckelmann journeyed north over the Alps, but the Tyrol depressed him and he decided to return to Italy.

The two would remain close, maintaining a lively letter exchange, until Winckelmann was murdered in Trieste in 1768.

* 1694 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer ( d. 1768 )

* 1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist ( d. 1873 )

In the German-speaking states Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ).

* February 12 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian ( b. 1768 )

* December 22 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer ( d. 1768 )

Johannes Daniel Falk ( 28 October 1768 – 14 February 1826 ) was a German poet.

Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( December 22, 1694, Hamburg – March 1, 1768, Hamburg ), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation.

The Christian hymn " Be Still, My Soul ", written in German (" Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen ") in 1752 by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel ( 1697 – 1768 ) and translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick ( 1813 – 1897 ), is usually sung to this tune.

* December 22-Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher ( died 1768 )

Beginning in 1768, German theatre companies arrived and became very popular.

* January 12 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement ( b. 1768 )

Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner ( November 18, 1768 – January 17, 1823 ) was a German poet, dramatist, and preacher.

Moreover the married young German lady, later to become a brilliant and militarily aggressive Empress, was closely monitored in her behavior by the Imperial Grand Chancellor Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin ( Алексе ́ й Петро ́ вич Бесту ́ жев-Рю ́ мин ) ( June 1, 1693 – April 21, 1768 ), Grand Chancellor of Russia, and closely watched over by Empress Elizabeth's cousin, Maria Choglokova, aged 24 but already with seven children.

* Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ): German theologian and philosopher whose theoretical hermeneutics underlie much of modern biblical exegesis.

* Johannes Daniel Falk ( 1768 – 1826 ), German writer

Hoyle's writing was translated into many continental languages ; first Portuguese ( 1753 ), then German ( 1754 ), French ( 1761 ), Italian ( 1768 ), Russian ( 1769 ) and Dutch ( 1790 ).

Born 7 August 1768, he was of German background.