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* 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
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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 and John
Dolley Payne was born May 20, 1768, at the New Garden Quaker settlement in North Carolina, where her parents, John Payne and Mary Coles Payne, lived briefly.
Image: 10thViscountKilmorey. jpg | Portrait of John Needham, 10th Viscount Kilmorey, ( c. 1768 ), Tate
He described his adventures and the Wager Mutiny in The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron ( 1768 ), which sold well enough to appear in several editions.
One of the major events on the road to revolution in which Madeira played a key role was the British seizure of John Hancock ’ s sloop the Liberty on May 9, 1768.
On June 10, 1768, customs officials seized the Liberty, a sloop owned by leading Boston merchant John Hancock, on allegations that the ship had been involved in smuggling.
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.
Thomas Lockey ( 1660 – 1665 ) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson ( 1701 – 1719 ) has been described as " negligent if not incapable ", and John Price ( 1768 – 1813 ) was accused by a contemporary scholar of " a regular and constant neglect of his duty ".
John Crome ( December 22, 1768 – April 22, 1821 ) was an English landscape artist of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists of the " Norwich school ".
The town would be incorporated in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth as Rindge, in honor of Captain Daniel Rindge of Portsmouth, one of the original grant holders, and the one who represented New Hampshire's claim to the land before the king.
The town's charter was granted in 1749 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, and in 1768 his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, named it in honor of New Hampshire's founder, Captain John Mason.
Incorporated in 1768, Temple takes its name from colonial governor John Wentworth's lieutenant governor, John Temple.
Incorporated in 1768, Windsor takes its name from Windsor, Connecticut, the home town of grantee John Campbell.
The name Madbury Parish was first recorded in a 1755 grant made by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, with full town privileges granted in 1768 by his successor, Governor John Wentworth.
Like many other towns, this one went through name changes before its incorporation in 1781: " Saville " in 1768, " Corey's Town ", and then " Wendell ", for one of the Masonian Proprietors, John Wendell.
* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1693 – 1768 ), a nephew of John Holles, 1st Duke, died without male issue, and his father's Laughton Barony and Baronetcy, his Earldom and his first Dukedom went extinct
1768 and Wilkes
John Wilkes Esq ; before the Court of King's Bench, engraving from The Gentleman's Magazine for May 1768
When Wilkes was imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768, his supporters appeared before King's Bench, London, chanting " No liberty, no King.
In the summer of 1767 Horne returned, and in 1768 secured the return of Wilkes to parliament for Middlesex.
He also provided Wilkes with the freehold qualification which enabled him to stand for Middlesex in the famous election of 1768.
Having, however, become prominent in British politics he was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department in January 1768 ; he acted with great promptitude during the unrest caused by John Wilkes and the Middlesex election of 1768.
At the dissolution in the spring of 1768 he was returned by Sir Lawrence Dundas for Richmond as a Tory, but in the questions that arose over John Wilkes he took the popular side of Wilkes and liberty, and resigned his seat in May 1769.
It was the scene of riots in 1768, agitating for the release of John Wilkes and, more seriously, was the starting point of the Gordon Riots in 1780 which began in the movement to repeal the act of parliament removing penalties for Catholics.
The house suffered some damage in the Wilkes ' election riots of 1768, but the duke saved his property by the expedient of opening the nearby Ship Ale House, which drew off the rioters.
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