Editing 1768 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Philip Astley]] stages the first modern [[Circus (performing art)|circus]], with [[acrobatics|acrobat]]s on galloping horses, in London.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Samuel Adams]]'s [[Massachusetts Circular Letter|circular letter]] is issued by the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], and sent to the other [[Thirteen Colonies]]. Refusal to revoke the letter will result in dissolution of the [[Massachusetts Assembly]], and (from October) incur the institution of martial law to prevent civil unrest.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; With Russian troops occupying the nation, opposition legislators of the national legislature having been deported, the government of Poland signs a treaty virtually turning the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] into a [[protectorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]].<ref>Norwood Young, ''The Life of Frederick the Great'' (Henry Holt and Co., 1919) p386</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The first [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]] is appointed in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]], the [[Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire|Earl of Hillsborough]].
* [[February 29]] &ndash; Five days after the signing of the treaty, a group of the [[szlachta]], Polish nobles, establishes the [[Bar Confederation]], to defend the internal and external independence of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] against Russian influence, and against King [[Stanisław II Augustus]].<ref name=Davies>Brian Davies, ''Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia's Turkish Wars in the Eighteenth Century'' (A&C Black, 2011)</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; King [[Louis XV of France]] decrees that all cities and towns in the kingdom will be required to post [[house numbering]] on all residential buildings, primarily to facilitate the forced quartering of troops in citizens' homes.<ref>"Indexing the Great Ledger of the Community: Urban House Numbering, City Directories, and the Production of Spatial Legibility", by Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, in ''Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming'', ed. by Lawrence D. Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho (Ashgate Publishing, 2009) p199</ref> 
* [[March 17]] 
**Britain's Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Sir [[William Johnson, 1st Baronet|William Johnson]], concludes a peace agreement with the leaders of the Six Nations of the [[Iroquois Confederacy]] (the [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]], [[Onondaga people|Onondaga]], [[Oneida people|Oneida]], [[Cayuga people|Cayuga]], [[Seneca people|Seneca]] and [[Tuscarora people|Tuscarora]] tribal nations) of the northern American lands, and with Chiefs [[Oconostota]] and [[Attakullakulla]] of the [[Cherokee]] nation in the southern American lands.<ref name=Weaver>Jace Weaver, ''The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927'' (University of North Carolina Press Books, 2014) p164</ref>
**Prithvi Singh begins a reign of 10 years as the new Raja of [[Jaipur]] (part of the modern-day Indian state of [[Rajasthan]]), 12 days after the death of [[Madho Singh I|Madho Singh]].<ref>Sailendra Nath Sen, ''Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785-96'' (Popular Prakashan, 1995) p126</ref> 
* [[March 27]] &ndash; Catherine the Great of Russia dispatches troops under General [[Pyotr Krechetnikov]] to intervene in a civil war in [[Poland]], at the request of Poland's King Stanisław II Augustus, a move that will ultimately lead to the [[Partitions of Poland]].<ref name=Davies/>