1768 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1768 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
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Births
Deaths
- 1 February - Sir Robert Rich, cavalry officer (born 1685)
- 2 February - Robert Smith, mathematician (born 1689)
- 8 February - George Dance the Elder, architect (born 1695)
- 17 February - Arthur Onslow, politician (born 1691)
- 18 March - Laurence Sterne, Irish-born English novelist (born 1713)
- 15 June - James Short, mathematician and optician (born 1710)
- 24 July - Nathanial Lardner, theologian (born 1684)
- 3 August - Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693)
- 1 October - Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687)
- 17 November - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister (born 1693)
- 26 November - Edward Stone, polymath (born 1702)
- date unknown - Mary Hervey (born 1700)
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