January 5 » Battle of Colmar: The French army beats Brandenburg.
March 4 » John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
August 10 » The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
October 29 » Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
November 2 » Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
December 19 » The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
Day of death February 2, 1768
The temperature on February 2, 1768 was about -4 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
February 29 » Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
May 10 » Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
August 26 » Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMSEndeavour.
November 5 » Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
December 10 » The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
December 28 » King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
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