* 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 )

* Lo speziale ( The Apothecary ) by Joseph Haydn ( 1768 )

* 1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( d. 1835 )

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

* 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples ( d. 1844 )

Etruria Hall, the family home, built 1768 – 1771 by Joseph Pickford.

* 1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician ( d. 1830 )

* July 28 – Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain ( b. 1768 )

* July 28 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal ( b. 1768 )

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

Image: Corte maison n ° 1 Place du Poilu. jpg | House of birth of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 )

The Fourier series is named in honour of Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), who made important contributions to the study of trigonometric series, after preliminary investigations by Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, and Daniel Bernoulli.

Joseph was born Giuseppe Buonaparte in 1768 to Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino at Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic.

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), Napoleon's elder brother.

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies and brother to Napoleon I of France.

* Joseph Sydney Yorke ( 1768 – 1831 ), British admiral

Fourier (; ) most commonly refers to Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist, or the mathematics, physics, and engineering terms named in his honor for his work on the concepts underlying them:

* Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist

File: An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768. jpg | An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768

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

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.

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

They met up with Austrian romantic landscape artist Joseph Anton Koch ( 1768 – 1839 ) who became an unofficial tutor to the group.

* Carel Anton Fodor ( 1768 – 1846 ), Dutch conductor and composer

He spent from 1765 to 1768 in Paris with the Swiss artist Balthasar Anton Dunker, where he focused on painting in gouache.

* Franz Anton Schubert ( 1768 – 1827 ), German composer, father of François Schubert

They met up with Austrian romantic landscape artist Joseph Anton Koch ( 1768 – 1839 ) who became an unofficial tutor to the group and in 1827 they were joined by Joseph von Führich ( 1800 – 76 ).

In January 1768, Mesmer married Anna Maria von Posch, a wealthy widow, and established himself as a physician in the Austrian capital Vienna.

The Austrian Jesuit Joseph Tieffenthaler wrote in 1768: “ Emperor Aurangzeb demolished the fortress called Ramcot, and erected on the same place a Mohammedan temple with three cupolas.

Josef Abel ( 22 August 1768 – 4 October 1818 ) was an Austrian historical painter and etcher.

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.

In his lifetime he was best known for successfully inoculating the members of the Habsburg family in Vienna against smallpox in 1768 and subsequently being the private counsellor and personal physician to the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.

In 1768, Empress Maria Theresa read a letter by Pringle on the success in the fight against smallpox in England, whereas in the Austrian empire the medical establishment vehemently opposed inoculations.

It later became apparent that this genus should be subdivided, and in 1768, the Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti placed the common toad in the genus Bufo, naming it Bufo bufo.

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

The species was first officially described by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768.