1768 in Great Britain

none 1768 yes Events from the year 1768 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Whig) (until 14 October); Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (Whig) (starting 14 October)Bryant Christopher Parliament: The Biography 2014 Doubleday 978-0-85752-224-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=XzKtCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA379 en thumb|upright|Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton Events 9 January – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses in London. 27 February – the first Secretary of State for the Colonies is appointed, the Earl of Hillsborough. March – general election; Whigs remain in power.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 224–225 0-7126-5616-2 17 March The Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Sir William Johnson, concludes a peace agreement with the leaders of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora tribal nations) of the northern American lands, and with Chiefs Oconostota and Attakullakulla of the Cherokee nation in the southern American lands.Jace Weaver The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 University of North Carolina Press 2014 164 William Cookworthy of Plymouth is granted a patent for the manufacture of true porcelain.William Cookworthy 1705–1780: a study of the pioneer of true porcelain manufacture in England John Penderill-Church Truro Bradford Barton 1972 28 April – The Exhibition of 1768 is held at Spring Gardens in London by the Society of Artists, the last to be held before a major split in the membership that led to the creation of the Royal Academy in December.Hargreaves, Matthew. Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. p.174 10 May – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticising King George III. This action provokes protesters to riot; in Southwark, troops fire on the mob, killing seven, the Massacre of St George's Fields.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LONstgeorge.htm St. George's Field Riot Spartacus 2012-03-03 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120127130828/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LONstgeorge.htm 2012-01-27 26 August – James Cook departs from Plymouth aboard Endeavour on his first voyage of discovery.http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17680826.html Cook's Journal: Daily Entries, 26 August 1768 2019-12-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20070923210354/http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17680807.html 2007-09-23 September – first Birmingham Music Festival held. 22–29 September – The Massachusetts Convention of Towns, assembling in Boston, resolves on a written objection to the impending arrival of British troops rather than more militant action but causes panic in London. 14 October – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, succeeds William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, as Prime Minister after Pitt's resignation due to ill health. 10 December – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Undated Citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, refuse to quarter British troops. Frederick Cornwallis enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. The Theatre Royal, Bath, and Theatre Royal, Norwich, assume these titles having been granted Royal Patents, making them officially England's only legal provincial patent theatres.Theatre Royal – Tate Wilkinson as Manager http://www.yorkguides.co.uk/theatre-royal-history/tatewilkinsonasmanager.html York Guides 2011-02-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120226000718/https://www.yorkguides.co.uk/theatre-royal-history/tatewilkinsonasmanager.html 2012-02-26 Foundation of the Leeds Library, the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in Britain.The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History Paul Kaufman Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 57 1967 7 1–67 10.2307/1006043 1006043 Joseph Wright of Derby's painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Publications First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica, edited by William Smellie, are published in Edinburgh (10 December); one hundred are planned. An Essay upon Prints, containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty by William Gilpin. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 registration https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will A Six Weeks Tour, through the southern counties of England and Wales by Arthur Young. The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, by "A Society of Gentlemen", a group of members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, concludes publication in weekly numbers and first published in book form Births 22 March – Bryan Donkin, engineer and inventor (died 1855) 17 May Caroline of Brunswick, queen of George IV (died 1821) Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, general (died 1854) 9 June – Samuel Slater, "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (died 1835 in the United States) 23 August – Astley Cooper, surgeon and anatomist (died 1841) 29 August – John Fawcett, actor (died 1837) 24 September – Sharon Turner, historian (died 1847) 2 October – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, general and politician (died 1854) Deaths 1 February – Sir Robert Rich, cavalry officer (born 1685) 2 February – Robert Smith, mathematician (born 1689) 8 February – George Dance the Elder, architect (born 1695) 17 February – Arthur Onslow, politician (born 1691) 18 March – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born English novelist (born 1713) 15 June – James Short, mathematician and optician (born 1710) 24 July – Nathanial Lardner, theologian (born 1684) 3 August – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693) 1 October – Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687) 17 November – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister (born 1693)History of Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/thomas-pelham-holles-1st-duke-of-newcastle www.gov.uk 19 June 2023 en 26 November – Edward Stone, polymath (born 1702) date unknown – Mary Hervey (born 1700) See also 1768 in Wales References 1768 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1768 by country Category:1768 in Europe Category:1760s in Great Britain