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  1. Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
    5: ..., Catherine's lover at the time, headed a conspiracy in which Catherine led a group of troops to the p...
    21: ...o-Turkish War]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottom...
    33: ...n le Rond d'Alembert|D'Alembert]], all French [[encyclopedist]]s who later cemented her reputation in ...
  2. Banksia (1867 bytes)
    15: ...nks]], of the [[James Cook|Cook]] expedition in [[1768]]. They are native to [[Australia]], growing in ...
  3. John Hancock (8787 bytes)
    8: ...s born in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]] (Now [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]). His father died when he was yo...
    15: ...ggling|smuggle]] glass, lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Li...
    25: In the first month of his presidency, on [[June 19]], [[1775]], Hancock commissioned [...
    30: "I should not trouble your Excellency, with such reiterated applications on the score o...
    41: ... to be officially published. He married Dolly Quency. He was also a [[Freemasonry|Free Mason]].
  4. John Adams (18716 bytes)
    13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
    18: ...ident of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United St...
    26: ... [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
    31: ... Gazette]] (republished separately in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law...
    33: ...tts|Boston]]. In [[1770]], he joined [[Josiah Quincy]], Jr. in defending the British soldiers that wer...
  5. Nepal (22444 bytes)
    37: | [[1768]]
    39: | '''[[Currency]]'''
    60: ...nasty that ruled until the [[18th century]]. In [[1768]], the Gorkha king, [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], cap...
    62: ...sed by extreme corruption bordering on [[kleptocracy]].
    85: ...th seasonal variations depending on the [[monsoon cycle]], which provides 60 to 80 percent of the tota...
  6. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of New York (1823-18...
    152: *[[Cy Young|Young, Cy]], (1867-1955), American baseball player
  7. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    230: *[[Canaletto]] ([[1697]]-[[1768]])
    302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
    303: *[[Jan Cybis]] ([[1897]]-[[1972]])
    304: *[[Cydney]] ([[1909]]-[?])
    323: *[[Jean Baptiste Debret]] ([[1768]] - [[1848]])
  8. American Revolution (17069 bytes)
    30: ... [[George Grenville]]'s [[Sugar Act]] and [[Currency Act]] created economic hardship in the colonies. ...
    38: ...[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] on [[June 10]], [[1768]]. Angry protests on the street led customs offic...
    40: ...sh troops began to arrive in Boston in October of 1768. Tensions continued to mount, culminating in the ...
    62: ...d during the [[French and Indian War]], but was recycled to encourage the American colonies to unite a...
    87: ==Legacy and interpretations==
  9. Uranus (15207 bytes)
    149: ... is more or less uniformly distributed. Uranus' [[cyan]] color is due to the absorption of [[red]] lig...
    168: ...]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and one last time in [[...
    172: ...of [[Uppsala]], proposed the names ''Astraea'', ''Cybele'', and ''Neptune'' (now borne by two [[astero...
  10. History of California (38344 bytes)
    45: ...t of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], flew briefly and unofficially in the state cap...
    50: ...e's territorial claims and challenge to the [[Papacy]] and the Spanish crown is that his port was foun...
    76: Dispatches of [[January 23]], [[1768]] exchanged between King Carlos and the viceroy s...
    86: ...ly expelled from "New Spain" on [[February 3]], [[1768]], Father Serra was named "Father Presidente." U...
  11. Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
    5: ... One of the protesters was [[John Hancock]]. In [[1768]], his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was seized by custom...
    7: ...en collectively attempted to influence public policy in the Colonies. By [[1773]] the Company had larg...
  12. Venice (22017 bytes)
    6: ...ice was a [[city state]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other three bei...
    10: ...islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-bro...
    20: ...ts frequently coming into conflict with the [[Papacy]]. Venice was threatened with the [[interdict]] o...
    31: ...[14th century]] from among the younger [[aristocracy]] and served aboard both war-galleys and armed me...
    33: ...vies from Dalmatia and Istria. In times of emergency, all males between seventeen and sixty years were...
  13. James Cook (14770 bytes)
    16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])==
    18: ...nsit of Venus]] across the [[Sun]]. Leaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahi...
  14. March 21 (10586 bytes)
    40: *[[1768]] - [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], [[France|Fr...
    93: *[[1958]] - [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]], science fiction writer, (b. [[...
  15. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
    261: ...ourier|Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], (France, [[1768]] - [[1830]])
  16. Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
    3: ... her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of great prestige in the [[Massachuset...
    29: <td>[[Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]</td>
    39: mother of [[John Quincy Adams]]
    48: ...ohn Quincy Adams]] (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-1800), Thomas Boylston (1772-1...
    52: ...rced her to spend as much time as possible in Quincy.
  17. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
    302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]])
    331: *[[Savvas Michael Koushiappas]] ([[Cyprus]], [[1972]] &ndash; )
    675: *[[Savvas M. Koushiappas]] ([[physicist]]) ([[Cyprus]], [[1971]] &ndash; )
    690: *[[James Short]] ([[1710]] ? [[1768]])
  18. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    96: *[[Aristippus|Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene]], (c. 435-366 BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    244: *[[Percy Williams Bridgman]], (1882-1961){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    308: *[[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]] (born 1943){{fn|O}}
    413: *[[Cyril of Alexandria]], (376-444)
    442: *[[Demetrius the Cynic]]
  19. Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
    5: ...rier Reef was [[Captain James Cook]] during his [[1768]] voyage. Cook discovered the reef by running agr...
    14: ...rs, except during tropical flood events caused by cyclones (hurricanes), and no major towns, the large...
    22: ...es to boom-and-bust like locusts in a desert. The cycles are thought to be enhanced by declines in wat...
  20. Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
    3: ...k service with the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]. In [[1768]] he examined portions of the [[Hudson Bay]] coas...

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