* 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.

* 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician ( b. 1768 )

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.

The Encyclopédie in turn inspired the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica, which had a modest beginning in Scotland: the first edition, issued between 1768 and 1771, had just three hastily completed volumes – A – B, C – L, and M – Z – with a total of 2, 391 pages.

It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland as three volumes.

In the first era ( 1st – 6th editions, 1768 – 1826 ), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others.

The Britannica was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh as the Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan.

In 1768 he was made the RA's first President, a position he held until his death.

* 1768 – In London, England, Great Britain, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.

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 ).

In 1768 Pierre-Antoine Véron, a young astronomer accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of exploration, established the width of the Pacific with precision for the first time in history.

The first iron plate rail way made with cast iron plates on top of wooden rails, was taken into use in 1768.

Richard married first on December 5, 1757, Anne Aylett ( 1738 – 1768 ), daughter of William Aylett and Elizabeth Eskridge ( 1719 ).

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

The first such organizations were debating societies: Crotonia in 1738, Linonia in 1753, and Brothers in Unity in 1768.

In 1768 Philip Astley opened the first modern circus.

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

It is the first mineral to be named after someone, and was first described in 1789 for an occurrence in Haslach, Harzburg and Oberstein, Germany, and named for Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn ( 1733 – 1785 ), commander of the military forces of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope from 1768 to 1780.

Work began on what historians would subsequently refer to as " the first Monticello " in 1768, on a plantation of 5, 000 acres ( 2, 000 hectares ).

* 1768 — Lazzaro Spallanzani again disproved spontaneous generation by showing that no organisms grow in a rich broth if it is first heated ( to kill any organisms ) and allowed to cool in a stoppered flask.

It was consecrated in 1768 and has dimensions of 105 meters long, 50 meters wide and 33 high in the nave, has 18 chapels and has three doors: El Perdón, San Frutos and San Geroteo, first bishop of the diocese.

He edited and added extensive commentary to the 1768 ( posthumous ) edition of Jakob Adlung's Musica mechanica organoedi ( English translation ).

The first American edition followed in 1768.

He only fully changed to the Linnaean system in the edition of The Gardeners Dictionary of 1768, though he had already described some genera, such as Larix and Vanilla, validly under the Linnaean system earlier, in the fourth edition ( 1754 ).

Korah is mentioned in the 1768 edition of the New England Primer.

In 1766 – 1768 Linnaeus published the much enhanced 12th edition, the last under his authorship.

In view of the popularity of the work, Linnaeus kept publishing new and ever-expanding editions, growing from eleven very large pages in the first edition ( 1735 ) to 2, 400 pages in the twelfth edition ( 1766 – 1768 ).

The seventh volume of the Berlin edition ( 1768 ) contains a notice of Gichtel's life.

The second part appeared in clandestine edition in 1768 and the Inquisition also banned it by decree in 1766.

At the age of 28, Smellie was hired by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell to edit the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which appeared in 100 weekly instalments (" numbers ") from December 1768 to 1771.

A fifth edition, originated by William Cobbett, but edited by Thomas Bayly Howell ( 1768 – 1815 ) and known as Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, was published between 1809 and 1826.

The first edition appeared in 1768 and the ninth and last edition in 1867.

He again went to Turin as chargé d ' affaires ; and during this second mission he collected and published a complete edition of the works of Leibniz ( Geneva, 6 vols., 1768 ) and wrote his Recherches sur l ' origine des découvertes attribuées aux modernes ( 1766 ).