This page relates to the year 1768 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • October 26th: Guy Carleton, baron Dorchester, becomes general governor of the province of Quebec. If it makes some concessions with the British minority, it recommends a mode of equity however, asking the restoration of the French legislation by associating there the institution of the Habeas Corpus and endeavors to cure the abuses justice. The class of the anglophone tradesmen, claiming the meeting of Assembled popular promised by the Proclamation of October 1763, refuse to discharge the taxes claimed by the crown.
  • November 5th: The Iroquois yield the Ohio to the British colonies with the Traité of Strong Stanwix or treated of the six Nations (William Johnson).

  • Two thousand soldiers are confined with Boston by the British. Frequent skirmishes burst between the population and the soldiers.

Africa

  • Madagascar: Between the Boina and the Betsimisaraka live the Sihanaka whose main resource is the draft of the slaves. When the razziées populations revolt and attack them, they call upon the French Shapes It to restore the order (1768).
  • the French open a counter with Bizerte, in Tunisia, then obtain the authorization to settle on Galite and, later, with the Cape Bon.

Oceania & the Pacific

Asia & Indian world

  • May 17th: The order of expulsion of the Jésuites arrives at the Filipino .
  • December 28th: Crowning of Taksin, king of Siam.
    • the Burmese domination on the Siam is of short duration and ends during a Thai rising carried out by the general Phya Taksin, who autoproclame king of the Siam (fine in 1782).

  • the Gurkha, warriors rajputs, take Katmandou with the Nepal.
  • the British remove the Sarkars North of the Bengal to the Nizâm.

The Middle East

  • Danish Forwarding in Arabia.

Europe

  • February 8th: expulsion of the Jesuits of the Duchy of Parma.

    • the religious policy of the duchy of Parma carried out by Guillaume of Tillot, minister of Don Philippe (intensifying of the control of the sovereign on the clergy, in its goods, its relationship with the pope, even in the exercise of the worship, prohibition of any recourse to foreign courts, in particular those of the pope) causes the interdict of the pope on the duchy. Parma expels the Jésuites then and abolishes the Inquisition.
  • February 18th: Bloody confrontations with the Russian garrisons in Poland.
  • February 29th: In Poland, formation of the Confederation of Bar of the Polish nobility against the Russian interference and the king Stanislas Poniatowski. Rising fails.
  • April 8th: The the Holy Office loses its capacity of censure to the Portugal.
  • May 2nd, Portugal: The Marquis de Pombal orders the destruction of all the registers containing the name of the Christian new families. He convenes the alleged household heads “rigorous” (who keep themselves of any impure alliance) and summon them to marry their daughters remaining unmarried in the four months with applicants excluded from their list. He threatens to déchoir of their dignity those which would not conform to it.
  • May 10th, the United Kingdom: Massacre Fields of Saint-Georges following the imprisonment of John Wilkes (7 died, 15 wounded).
    • John Wilkes, several times elected at the Communes, is each time invalidated by the majority won over to the king (1768 - 1774). It presents its candidature in eleven districts; meetings are taken place in its favor. Lampoons violent one, the Letters of Junius , denounce the personal role of the king.
    • Riots and strikes during spring and the summer because of the dearness of the bread and the low wages.
  • May 15th: treaty of Versailles, Genoa yields the Corsica to the France, colonization starts.
  • May: Creation of the council of empire in Russia (Viazemski, Sievers, Bibikov, the brothers Orlov and Tcherkassov), charged to reorganize the army.
  • June 11th: In reprisals with the judgment of the Duchy of Parma by the pope, the France occupies Avignon and the Comtat (1768-1774).
  • June 14th, Poland: Massacre of Pole by Ukrainians with Human.
  • September 25th: Choiseul and Vergennes, ambassador of France to Constantinople, which wants to save the Poland, push the Ottoman Empire to declare the war with the Russia.
  • October 14th: Beginning of the ministry whig of the duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (fine in 1770).
  • December: Beginning of the Russo-Turkish war (fine in 1774). The Russians attack in Bessarabia and the Crimea.
  • December 31st: Promulgation of the code thérésien of penal procedure ( Codex Theresianus or Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana ), written by Charles Martini. There remains traditionalist and usual. Torture and to rough-hew it for the homosexual ones is maintained. The sacrilege, the heresy, the apostasy, the blasphemy, are qualified crimes. End of the lawsuits of Sorcery.

  • Revolt of the middle-classes against the domination of the patricians families to Geneva.
  • Repression of the revolt of the Cossacks of Iaïk by the Russia.
  • License favorable to the peasants of High Silesia influenced by White François von.

  • Bad harvests in Bohemia (1768 and 1769): flight of the prices, crisis of subsistence.

  • the Police station with the British colonies becomes true a secretariat of State.

France

  • Reference of the Parliaments.

  • secret Project of unloading in England of the knight of Eon, embassy secretary to London.

Arts & cultures

See also: 1768 with the theater, 1768 in literature

  • Quarrel in France between the partisans and the detractors of the “beautiful canto” of the soloists which invaded the scene of the operas to the detriment of the music (1768 - 1772).
  • the Harvesters , comedy with verses of Favart.
  • the Ingenuous one, Op3era Comique of Gretry.
  • the finta semplice , opera of Mozart.
  • Olympiad , opera of Niccolo Piccini.

Sciences & technology

See also: 1768 in science

Economy & company

  • Census: the Spain account 9,3 million inhabitants. The density remains low: 20 to 22 inhabitants with the km ².
  • Physiocracy, or natural Constitution of the most advantageous government of mankind of Of the Bridge of Nemours, editor association of the newspaper of the physiocrats, Éphémérides of the citizen (1768 - 1772).
  • Bank of Saint-Pétersbourg. Russia obtains an banking institution realizing of the current operations (deposits, discount, emission).

Births in 1768

Death in 1768

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