Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1768. This year saw 14 significant events.
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
Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, bound for the Pacific Ocean on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour
Philip Astley (8 January 1742 – 20 October 1814) was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus".
First mustard manufactured in America is advertised in Philadelphia
1st American chartered fire insurance company opens in Pennsylvania
First US Chamber of Commerce forms in NYC
French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's expedition arrives in Tahiti, claiming it for France and naming it New Cythera [1]
The first medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer by the College of Philadelphia
Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's first patriotic song
British troops under General Thomas Gage land in Boston
The first Methodist church in the North American colonies, Wesley Chapel in New York City, is initiated
The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway (rediscovered 1974)
The first of 100 weekly "numbers" of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which are bound into three volumes in 1771, is published in Edinburgh, Scotland
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
Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, bound for the Pacific Ocean on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour
Philip Astley (8 January 1742 – 20 October 1814) was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus".
First mustard manufactured in America is advertised in Philadelphia
1st American chartered fire insurance company opens in Pennsylvania
First US Chamber of Commerce forms in NYC
French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's expedition arrives in Tahiti, claiming it for France and naming it New Cythera [1]
The first medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer by the College of Philadelphia
Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's first patriotic song
British troops under General Thomas Gage land in Boston
The first Methodist church in the North American colonies, Wesley Chapel in New York City, is initiated
The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway (rediscovered 1974)
The first of 100 weekly "numbers" of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which are bound into three volumes in 1771, is published in Edinburgh, Scotland