1768

1768 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1768 MDCCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2521
Armenian calendar	1217 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	6518
Balinese saka calendar	1689–1690
Bengali calendar	1175
Berber calendar	2718
British Regnal year	8 Geo. 3 – 9 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2312
Burmese calendar	1130
Byzantine calendar	7276–7277
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4464 or 4404     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4465 or 4405
Coptic calendar	1484–1485
Discordian calendar	2934
Ethiopian calendar	1760–1761
Hebrew calendar	5528–5529
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1824–1825
- Shaka Samvat	1689–1690
- Kali Yuga	4868–4869
Holocene calendar	11768
Igbo calendar	768–769
Iranian calendar	1146–1147
Islamic calendar	1181–1182
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 5 (明和５年)
Javanese calendar	1693–1694
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4101
Minguo calendar	144 before ROC 民前144年
Nanakshahi calendar	300
Thai solar calendar	2310–2311
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 1894 or 1513 or 741     — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1895 or 1514 or 742

1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London)
• May 10 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London
• Secretary of State for colonies appointed in Britain
• Massachusetts Assembly dissolved for refusing to assist collection of taxes.
• Boston citizens refuse to quarter British troops
• France buys Corsica from Genoa
• Gurkhas conquer Nepal
• First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica are published; 100 are planned
• James Cook's first voyage: 1768-1771

Births

• 12 February 1768 Francis I of Austria

Deaths

• 3 March 1768 Nicola Porpora