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1768
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by
Gorgonzola
Sat Oct 21 2000 at 2:31:34
Born in 1768:
French
Mathematician
Jean-Robert Argand
.
French mathematician
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
(inventor of
Fourier analysis
).
Dolley Payne
, future wife of
James Madison
Elizabeth Kortright
, future wife of
James Monroe
.
English
physicist
Anthony Carlisle
.
English composer
Elizabeth Billington Weichsell
.
Austrian Emperor
Francis I
, last
Holy Roman Emperor
.
Princess
Caroline Ameila
of
Brunswick
, later wife of King
George IV
.
Future King
Rama II
of
Siam
.
Died in 1768:
Pope
Clement XIII
struck down by
lightning
.
English author
Laurence Sterne
, writer of
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
.
Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, aka
Canaletto
.
Italian composer
Francesco Maria Veracini
.
French composer
Michel Blavet
.
Italian composer
Nicola Porpora
.
Events of 1768:
Scottish printers
Colin Macfarquhar
and
Andrew Bell
publish
A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
at their
Edinburgh
shop. This dictionary will be very successful, and later come to be called
Encyclopædia Britannica
.
Several
Polish
nobles and
Roman Catholic
clergymen form an alliance known as the
Confederation of Bar
to oppose
Russia
n influence in Poland. They especially oppose King
Stanislaus II
whom they consider a Russian puppet.
Captain
James Cook
, commanding the
Endeavour
, leaves
Plymouth
Harbour on his first voyage, ostensibly to observe a predicted
1769
transit
of
Venus
from the
South Pacific
.
The Spanish representative in
Havana
embezzles half of the Royal subsidy for
Louisiana
. Not only that, Louisiana is forbidden to trade with French colonies. Eventually, the
Creoles
in
New Orleans
expel the Spanish governor
Antonio de Ulloa
.
Botston merchants
boycott
British goods.
Rioters in
Boston
chase royal officials out of the city. A British fleet anchors in
Boston Harbor
, and British troops occupy boston. The officials return.
Charlotte, NC
founded.
Genoa
gives up all hope of contriolling
Corsica
and sells it to
France
.
Please see next year.
1767
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1768
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1769
1769
1767
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Encyclopædia Britannica
Thomas Secker
Dolley Payne Todd Madison
Holy Roman Empire
Doctors' Commons
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Elizabeth and Thomas Linley
Frederik VI
18th century
James Madison
Die now!
Rama II
Fraunces Tavern
1738
Beothuk
Hakuin Ekaku
Massa di Requiem per Shuggay
James Cook
1830
procrastinate
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