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1768| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1760–1770 | North America [statistics and demography] | The estimated population of the North American colonies is 1,593,625 including 325,806 black slaves. | | 1766–1777 | UK [canals] | English engineer James Brindley begins work on the Grand Trunk Canal linking the Trent and Mersey rivers. It crosses the Pennines by the Harecastle tunnel and will establish a water route between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. | | 1768 | England [dictionaries and encyclopedias] | The Encyclopaedia Britannica, the oldest English language encyclopaedia, begins publication, in weekly numbers. The first edition will be published in 1771. | | 1768 | Scotland [energy] | Scottish engineer James Watt builds a small steam engine with his condenser and the following year takes out a patent on it. This is the first true steam engine. | | 1768 | England [fiction] | The English novelist Laurence Sterne publishes A Sentimental Journey. An account of a tour through France and Italy, it is a satire on the sentimentality of many contemporary novels. Ironically, it is taken seriously by many of his readers and becomes very popular. | | 18 March 1768 | Ireland, England [births and deaths] | Laurence Sterne, Irish-born English novelist, dies in London, England (55). | | October 1768 | Ottoman Empire, Russia [diplomacy] | The Ottoman Empire, prompted by France, declares war on Russia to counter its increasing influence in Poland. |
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Adriano in Siria
Ajaccio
Álvarez, José
Ames, Ezra
Anglesey, Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
Argand, Jean Robert
Arkwright, Richard
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Bastien und Bastienne
Berry, Edward
dictionaries and encyclopedias
Fischer, Johann Christian
Haydn, Joseph
Rodríguez de Hita, Antonio
Sterne, Laurence
Zuccarelli, Francesco
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| Koner, triumphantly demonstrated the feasibility of the journey, its chances of success, the nature of the obstacles existing, the immense advantages of the aerial mode of locomotion, and found fault with nothing but the selected point of departure, which it contended should be Massowah, a small port in Abyssinia, whence James Bruce, in 1768, started upon his explorations in search of the sources of the Nile. On the 25th of December the Nautilus sailed into the midst of the New Hebrides, discovered by Quiros in 1606, and that Bougainville explored in 1768, and to which Cook gave its present name in 1773. They arrived in September, 1768, and were landed on Long Wharf. |