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Astley’s Amphitheatre in 1773[/caption]
In the year 1768, the first modern circus is staged in London (Jan 9), a peace agreement is made between Britain and several native American leaders of both the northern and southern American lands (Mar 17), the New York Chamber of Commerce is founded (Apr 5), the island of Corsica is ceded to France (May 15), James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his first voyage of discovery (Aug 8), the Russo-Turkish war begins (Oct 4), New Smyrna in Florida is founded as the largest attempt at colonization by the British in the New World – and all these fine people were born:
1768-0101 1768-0107 Joseph Bonaparte* lawyer/diplomat/ older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte - Corte, Corsica, Republic of Genoa (1844/76) 1768-0110 1768-0120 1768-0124 Heikki Matinpoika Ala-Kuhna** father of Helena Heikintytär Luoma- Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1849/81) 1768-0131 1768-0212 Francis II* the last Holy Roman Emperor (1792-1806)/as Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria (1804-1835) - Florence, Tuscany (1835/67) 1768-0218 Julius Conrad Antell* lawyer/customs officer - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1835/67) 1768-03xx Tecumseh* Shawnee warrior and chief - Old Chillicothe, Ohio Country, British Empire (1813/c.45) 1768-0317 Ka’ahumanu* queen consort/regent of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi - Puu Kauki, Maui (1832/65) 1768-0503 Charles Tennant* chemist/industrialist/discovered bleaching powder - Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland (1838/70) 1768-0517 Caroline of Brunswick* Princess of Wales/wife of King George IV - Brunswick, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire (1821/53) 1768-0520 Dolley Madison* First Lady – Guilford County, North Carolina, British America (1849/81) 1768-0609 Samuel Slater* pioneering industrialist – Belper, Derbyshire, Britain (1835/66) 1768-0629 Vincenzo Dimech* sculptor - Valletta, Hospitaller Malta (1831/62) 1768-0710 Hendrik Voogd* painter/printmaker - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1839/71) 1768-0727 Charlotte Corday* political activist/assassin of Jean-Paul Marat - Écorches, Normandy, France (1793/24) 1768-0824 John Fearn* whaler/first European on Nauru - Kingston upon Hull, England (18xx) 1768-0830 Joseph Dennie* author/journalist – Boston, Massachusetts (1812/43) 1768-0904 François-René de Chateaubriand* writer/politician/diplomat - Saint-Malo, Brittany, France (1848/79) 1768-0917 Gustaf Hjärne* soldier/civil servant in Finland/senator - Stockholm, Sweden (1845/77) 1768-0923 William Wallace* mathematician/astronomer/inventor of the eidograph - Dysart, Fife, Scotland (1843/74) 1768-0925 Mikko Matinpoika Rinta-Jussila** (b Hyövälti) farmer/father of Jaakko Mikonpoika Yli-Jussila – Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1836/68) 1768-0928 Pauline Léon* radical organizer/feminist - Paris, France (1838/70) 1768-1006 Josef Madersperger* tailor/one of the inventors of the sewing machine - Kufstein, Austria (1850/81) 1768-1111 Joseph Lainé* lawyer/politician - Bordeaux, France (1835/68) 1768-1201 1768-1209 Joseph Desha* politician/ governor - Monroe County, Pennsylvania, British America (1842/73) 1768-1217 Johann Philipp Palm* bookseller - (1806/37) 1768-0000 1768-0000 1768-0000 Updated 2024-1209 Helsinki Search for another year here