What Happened in 1768

Major Events

  • Apr 9 John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
  • Aug 25 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean
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Born in 1768

  • Jan 7 Joseph Bonaparte, French King of Naples and Spain, brother of Napoleon, born in Corte, Corsica (d. 1844)
  • Jan 10 James Varicick, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1827)
  • Jan 28 Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-39) and Norway (1808-1814), born in Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1839)
  • Feb 12 Francis II, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806), Emperor of Austria (1804-35), born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1835)
  • Feb 13 Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)

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Fun Fact About 1768

Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London

January 9, 1768


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