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| Gregorian calendar | 1768 MDCCLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2521 |
| Armenian calendar | 1217 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6518 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1689–1690 |
| Bengali calendar | 1175 |
| Berber calendar | 2718 |
| British Regnal year | 8 Geo. 3 – 9 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2312 |
| Burmese calendar | 1130 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7276–7277 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4464 or 4404 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4465 or 4405 |
| Coptic calendar | 1484–1485 |
| Discordian calendar | 2934 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1760–1761 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5528–5529 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1824–1825 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1689–1690 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4868–4869 |
| Holocene calendar | 11768 |
| Igbo calendar | 768–769 |
| Iranian calendar | 1146–1147 |
| Islamic calendar | 1181–1182 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiwa 5 (明和５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1693–1694 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4101 |
| Minguo calendar | 144 before ROC 民前144年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 300 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2310–2311 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 1894 or 1513 or 741 — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1895 or 1514 or 742 |
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1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London)
- May 10 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London
- Secretary of State for colonies appointed in Britain
- Massachusetts Assembly dissolved for refusing to assist collection of taxes.
- Boston citizens refuse to quarter British troops
- France buys Corsica from Genoa
- Gurkhas conquer Nepal
- First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica are published; 100 are planned
- James Cook's first voyage: 1768-1771
Births
Deaths
- 3 March 1768 Nicola Porpora