Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen in 1770 ( according to some accounts, in 1768 ), the son of Gottskálk Þorvaldsson, an Icelander who had settled in Denmark.

There is also one in Layrac, France, the birthplace of Pierre Nezat who settled in 1768 in St Martinville.

Worthington was first settled in 1764 and was officially incorporated in 1768.

The town was first settled in 1768 by John and Martha Taggart, immigrants from Derry, Ireland.

Incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1764 and settled in 1768, the town takes its name from Italy's Piemonte.

The town was first permanently settled in 1768 by several families from Londonderry.

Incorporated in 1791, Goshen was first settled in 1768 as a part of Saville ( now Sunapee ).

Edwardsville was settled in 1768 by settlers from Connecticut.

Samuel Cockayne ( 1768 – 1854 ) migrated from the east and settled on the land that now comprises Glen Dale in 1798.

It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.

In 1768, the town was settled and renamed again, this time to " Gunthwaite ", after a relation of Colonial Governor John Wentworth.

The town was settled in 1768 by several families originally from Hampton.

In 1768 he settled at Hanover as private physician of George III with the title of a Hofrat.

But they settled in the Handsworth parish and there are over 60 entries in the Parish Registers for members of the Jeffcock family between 1636 and a 1768.

Tecumseh, however, was born in 1768, before this Chillicothe was settled.

He married Martha Daingerfield in 1768 and they likely settled at Kippax about that time.

In 1768, about 500 Greeks from Smyrna, Crete and Mani settled in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

The treaty also settled land claims between the Six Nations and the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, where the lands acquired in 1768 were called the " New Purchase.

Following the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Mohawks were forced north and west and a number settled in Onaquaga, just west of the treaty line.

Upper Economy was first settled in 1768 by the Hill brothers, Robert, Charles, and Patrick, who were each allotted in March of that year of land.

He settled in Joppa before 1768 and lived there the rest of his life.

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

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 Hutton returned to Edinburgh, letting his farms to tenants but continuing to take an interest in farm improvements and research which included experiments carried out at Slighhouses.

In May 1768 Fergusson returned to Edinburgh.

Benjamin Rush ( 1745 – 1813 ), who signed the American Declaration of Independence and is considered one of the “ fathers " of American medicine, and who trained in medicine at Edinburgh University ( 1766 – 1768 ), strongly advocated “ heroic medicine ”.

John Erskine of Carnock ( 4 November 1695 – 1 March 1768 ) was a Scottish jurist and professor of Scottish law at the University of Edinburgh.

After teaching at Annan, he entered the Church of Scotland, becoming minister at New Greyfriars in Edinburgh in 1768.

James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton KT FRS ( 1702 – 12 October 1768 ) was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death.

The office was created in 1699, and from 1768 until 1956 it was combined with the office of Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who also held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh.

For example, the Royal Society of Edinburgh gives a date of birth of 1768, and his gravestone gave a date of birth of 1766.

In 1764 he became private tutor to Alexander Kincaid, afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by whose influence he was appointed in 1768 to the rectorship of the High School on the retirement of Mr Matheson, whose substitute he had been for some time before.

There is a dispute concerning Napoleon's age because of this requirement ; the emperor is known to have altered the civic records at Ajaccio concerning himself and it is possible that he was born in Corte in 1768 when his father was there on business.

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.

Clement XIII warmly espoused the order in a papal bull Apostolicum pascendi, 7 January 1765, which dismissed criticisms of the Jesuits as calumnies and praised the order's usefulness ; it was largely ignored: by 1768 the Jesuits had been expelled from France, the Two Sicilies and Parma.

* Repnin Sejm ( Sejm Repninowski ; 1767 – 1768 )

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( Caroline Amelia Elizabeth ; later Queen Caroline ; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821 ) was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death.

* Leonard Covington ( 1768 – 1813 ), US congressman and US general in War of 1812 ; namesake of various US cities

On this second visit to England, he was lauded by the English nobility and critics alike, and invited to exhibit at leading art societies ; moreover, King George III is said to have commissioned the out-sized painting River Landscape with the Finding of Moses ( 1768 ).

In 1768 a curtain was hung over the painting for the purpose of protection ; it instead trapped moisture on the surface, and whenever the curtain was pulled back, it scratched the flaking paint.

After his stepmother's death in 1768, his father married for a third time ; Anna Christina Svinhufvud, in 1770.

In 1768, a weekly stagecoach was opened between Norwich and Providence via North Stonington and Pawcatuck ; this road would become the Norwich-Westerly Road, today known as Route 2.

The Spanish gained colonial control in 1768 ; they remained in control until 1804, when the area was transferred to the Americans.

A meeting-house was erected in 1768 ; but it was not thoroughly completed for some years afterwards.

* Normanton Hall, Rutland and other houses for Sir Gilbert Heathcote Bt ( 1768 – 78 ) that included the management of a funeral for Lady Bridget Heathcote, 1772 ;

It was apparently officered by Europeans, and its first admiral was an Englishman ; by 1768 its admiral was a Mysorean cavalry officer named Ali Bey ( or Lutf Ali Beg ), apparently chosen by Hyder because he did not trust the European captains.

John Wilkes Esq ; before the Court of King's Bench, engraving from The Gentleman's Magazine for May 1768

In December 2011 she was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy ; along with Fiona Rae, she is one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.

In 1768, on his return from Italy, he was elected to the Académie française ; contrary to the popular idea that he attended only one meeting, he was a frequent attender until two years before his death.

The fort that Ulloa had ordered built, known as Fort Don Carlos, ultimately was constructed on the southern bank of the Missouri ; however, disputes during the construction led to the dismissal of Riu and his replacement by Pedro Piernas in August 1768.

Weather and ice delayed Piernas's ascent to Fort Don Carlos through April 1769 ; between his arrival and his departure, the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768 broke out in New Orleans against Spanish rule, and Ulloa was forced to flee.

In any case, Jeanne could not qualify as an official royal mistress unless she had a title ; this was solved by her marriage on 1 September 1768 to du Barry's brother, comte Guillaume du Barry.

In 1765 an entry on the Causeway appeared in volume 12 of the French Encyclopédie, which was informed by the engravings of Drury's work ; the engraving of the " East Prospect " itself appeared in a 1768 volume of plates published for the Encyclopédie.