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1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1768th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade.

1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter. Samuel Adams wrote a statement, approved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which attacked Parliament's persistence in taxing the colonies without proper representation, and which called for unified resistance by all the colonies.

More than 3,000 Iroquois Indians gathered in November 1768 at Fort Stanwix (now Rome), N.Y., to sign the Treaty of Fort Stanwix with British government agents; they ceded land south and east of a line running from Fort Stanwix south to the Delaware River, west and south to the Allegheny River, and downstream to the confluence of the Ohio and ...

On May 9, 1768, the merchant ship, Liberty, arrived at Boston. The ship was owned by John Hancock and carried casks of Madeira Wine. British customs officials suspected the ship was carrying more casks than what was listed on the manifest, which meant Hancock was smuggling them, hoping to avoid paying the taxes.

1768 - In February, Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a Circular Letter opposing taxation without representation and calling for the colonists to unite in their actions against the British government. The letter is sent to assemblies throughout the colonies and also instructs them on the methods the Massachusetts general court is using to ...

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Historical Events for the Year 1768. 29th February » Polish nobles formed Bar Confederation. 4th April » In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus. 10th May » John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for 'The North Briton' severely criticizing George III of the United Kingdom known as King George III. This action ...

2020年5月21日 · There were more protests against the Townshend duties, and a non-importation agreement was reached in 1768. That created more difficulties for parliament because British merchants realized that they would suffer from the actions …

A transnational landscape for early America. Visually retentive readers of Fred Anderson’s award-winning Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000) will recall its centerpiece, the Scenographia Americana