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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1768. 1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
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    The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian arms largely victorious against the Ottoman Empire. Russia's victory brought...
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    warlord first: Prince Thepphiphit of Phimai was subjugated and executed in 1768. Chao Narasuriyawongse, one of Taksin's nephews, replaced Thepphiphit as...
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  • Chinese sorcery scares took place in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1908. They involved accusations of sorcery against minority populations. The magic was thought...
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  • The 1768 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger...
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  • subject of the Liberty Affair. Seized by customs officials in Boston in 1768, it was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Liberty, and she was burned...
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    Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration of the...
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    explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular...
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    Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was...
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  • "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768", Colonial America Phillis Wheatley writes "To the King's Most Excellent...
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  • The year 1768 in architecture involved some significant events. Work begins on Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson...
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  • (simplified Chinese: 王贞仪; traditional Chinese: 王貞儀; pinyin: Wáng Zhēnyí; 1768–1797; styled Deqing(德卿), also known as the Jinling and Jiangning Lady Historian(金陵女史))...
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    Events from the year 1768 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: James Murray Governor of Nova Scotia: Montague Wilmot Commodore-Governor...
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    (accompanied by negotiators from New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania) in 1768 at Fort Stanwix. It was negotiated between Sir William Johnson, his deputy...
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    Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 is a multi-volume account by the Scottish traveller James...
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  • Sultana was a small Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 through 1772. Her role was to prevent smuggling and to collect customs duties...
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    The year 1768 in science and technology involved some significant events. Steller's sea cow is hunted to extinction. Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti becomes...
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    Alexandre de Bourbon (Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas; 6 September 1747 – 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, great grandson of Louis...
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    The Rebellion of 1768, also known as the Revolt of 1768 or the Creole Revolt, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Creole elite of New Orleans, along with...
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  • John Halkett (27 February 1768 – 12 November 1852) was Governor of the Bahamas and Governor of Tobago. He was born in Pitfirrane, near Dunfermline, Scotland...
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    1768 Appenzella (prov. designation: 1965 SA) is a rare-type Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in...
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    from the Revolution. She is also known as “Mademoiselle Vaubernier”. In 1768, when the king wished to make Jeanne maîtresse-en-titre, etiquette required...
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  • John Edwards (1768–1808) was an English nonconformist minister and political radical. He is best known as the successor of Joseph Priestley at the New...
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    colonial administrator who served as the governor of Quebec from 1760 to 1768 and governor of Minorca from 1778 to 1782. Born in Ballencrieff, East Lothian...
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  • elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain at the 1768 British general election, the 13th Parliament of Great Britain and their...
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    the founder of the Gorkha Kingdom from 1559 to 1768 and later the unified Kingdom of Nepal from 1768 to 28 May 2008. The Shah dynasty traces their historical...
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    Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. A French expeditionary force was...
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    the unification of the country and the founding of the Kingdom of Nepal in 1768, to the establishment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in 2008...
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    Russia the dominant power in the Balkans following the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. Russia inflicted some of the heaviest defeats ever suffered by the...
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  • This is a list of music related events in 1768. Johann Christian Bach gives the first ever solo piano performance, in London on an instrument by Johannes...
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