Editing 1768 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]]&ndash;[[July 3|3]] &ndash; [[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]], on his circumnavigation westbound, sails through the [[Bougainville Strait]] and along the north shore of [[Bougainville Island]] in the [[Solomon Islands|Solomons]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Dunmore, John|title=The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768|location=London|publisher=[[Hakluyt Society]]|year=2002|isbn=0-904180-78-6}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] &ndash; The massacre of Polish people (most likely by the Russians) at the village of [[Balta, Ukraine|Balta]], now a part of Ukraine but at the time an [[Ottoman Empire]] town on the frontier with [[Poland]], leads to the [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)|Russo-Turkish War]].<ref>Walter K. Kelly, ''The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'' (H. G. Bohn, 1855) p47</ref> 
* [[July 18]] &ndash; "[[The Liberty Song]]", the first American patriotic song, is published in the ''[[Boston Gazette]]'' and includes the refrain "In freedom we're born".  <ref name=Carruth/>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; The Imperial Court of [[China]]'s Emperor [[Qianlong Emperor|Qianlong]] and his three senior grand councilors, Fuheng, Yenjisan and Liu T'ung-hsun, issues a directive to officials in the [[Zhejiang]], [[Jiangsu]] and [[Shandong]] provinces warning them about the need to respond to [[1768 China sorcery panic|rumors of sorcery]].<ref>Philip A. Kuhn, ''Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) p78</ref> 
* [[August 7]] &ndash; The palace of the Ottoman Grand Vizier is destroyed by a fire in Constantinople <ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p56</ref>
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] departs from [[Plymouth]] aboard {{HMS|Endeavour}} on his [[First voyage of James Cook|first voyage of discovery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17680826.html|title=Cook's Journal: Daily Entries, 26 August 1768|access-date=2019-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070923210354/http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17680807.html|archive-date=2007-09-23}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; Almost all merchants and traders in the British colony of [[New York (state)|New York]] sign a pact not to import British manufactured goods as long as the [[Townshend Acts]] are in effect, nor to do business with nonassociators to the pact.<ref>Jerrilyn Greene Marston, ''King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776'' (Princeton University Press, 2014) p106</ref> 
* [[August 30]] &ndash; A fire burns much of the Library of the Vatican.<ref name=Fires/>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Louis XV of France]] appoints [[René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou|René de Maupeou]] as [[Grand Chancellor of France|Chancellor]] (an office he will hold until [[1790]]), and orders him to crush the judicial opposition.
* [[September 22]]&ndash;[[September 29|29]] &ndash; The [[Massachusetts Convention of Towns]], assembling in [[Boston]], resolves on a written objection to the impending arrival of British troops rather than more militant action but causes panic in London.