page_title: 1768
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1768 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Maria Edgeworth by John Downman
context_page_description: 1768 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 and Anno Domini designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1768, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist (d. 1849)
  January 7 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (d. 1844)
  January 17 – Smith Thompson, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1843)
  January 28 – King Frederick VI of Denmark (d. 1839)
  February 12 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
  February 13 – Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, French marshal (d. 1835)
  March – Tecumseh, Native American (Shawnee) chief (d. 1813)
  March 21 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician, physicist (d. 1830)
  March 22 – Melesina Trench, Irish born writer and socialite (d. 1827)
  May 3 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist, industrialist (d. 1838)
  May 17
  Caroline of Brunswick, queen of George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1821)
  Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
  May 20 –  Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
  June 9 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
  June 20 – William Findlay, American politician (d. 1846)
  June 24 – Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
  June 29 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (d. 1831)
  June 30 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (d. 1830)
  July 4 – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (d. 1852)
  July 20 – Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, Russian serf, actress and opera soprano (d. 1803)
  July 27 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer of Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
  August 6 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
  September 4 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, diplomat (d. 1848)
  September 23 – William Wallace, Scottish Mathematician (d. 1843)
  September 28 – Pauline Léon, French feminist, radical (d. 1838)
  October 2 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
  October 6 – Josef Madersperger, Austrian tailor, inventor and sewing machine pioneer (d. 1850)
  October 31 – María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda, Spanish scholar (b. 1803)
  November 3 – Karađorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, founder of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty (d. 1817)
  November 18
  Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (d. 1823)
  José Marchena Ruiz de Cueto, Spanish writer (d. 1821)
  November 21 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834)
  date unknown  – Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1832)
  Wang Zhenyi, Chinese astronomer
  Amelia Griffiths, British phycologist  (d. 1858)
caption: Maria Edgeworth
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