Editing 1768 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; The British Army's [[29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot|29th Infantry Regiment]] of foot soldiers, which will carry out the [[Boston Massacre]] on March 5, 1770, arrives in [[Boston Harbor]] along with three other regiments.  The 700 foot soldiers march through the Massachusetts colony's capital as a show of force and begin their occupation.<ref>John K. Alexander, ''Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) p65</ref> Within a year, there will be "nearly 4,000 armed redcoats in the crowded seaport of 15,000 inhabitants."<ref>Gordon S. Wood, ''The American Revolution: A History'' (Random House, 2002)</ref>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; The Sultan [[Mustafa III]] of the Ottoman Empire begins the [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)|Russo-Turkish War]] after the Russians refuse to withdraw troops from Poland.<ref>Virginia H. Aksan, ''An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783'' (E.J. Brill, 1995) p100</ref> 
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|William Pitt]] resigns from his position as [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]].<ref>"Pitt, William", by G. F. Russell Barker, in ''Dictionary of National Biography'', Volume 45 (Smith, Elder, & Company, 1896) p232</ref> 
* [[October 15]] &ndash; A powerful hurricane sweeps across [[Cuba]] during the Festival of Santa Teresa, killing hundreds of people.  Spain's King Carlos III begins a precedent of ordering the colonial government to fund disaster relief, a task previously left to the Catholic Church.<ref>Sherry Johnson, ''Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) p83</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; Representatives of the [[Cherokee]] nation sign the [[Treaty of Hard Labour]] with British representative [[John Stuart (Virginia)|John Stuart]] and relinquish all claims to the land between the Ohio River and the Allegheny Mountains, now the United States state of [[West Virginia]].<ref>Charles Royce, ''The Cherokee Nation'' (Routledge, 2017)</ref> 
* [[October 29]] &ndash; French colonists in [[Louisiana]] refuse to accept the colony's acquisition by Spain and begin an uprising that forces Spanish Governor [[Antonio de Ulloa]] to flee.<ref>Charles E. Gayarré, ''History of Louisiana: The French Domination'' (F. F. Hansell, 1903, reprinted by Pelican Publishing, 1972) p308</ref> 
* [[November 5]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]] is signed between the five nations of the [[Iroquois Confederacy]] (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) relinquishing their claims to territory south of the [[Ohio River]] to the British.<ref>"Fort Stanwix, Treaty at", in ''Harper's Popular Cyclopedia of United States History'', ed. by Benson J. Lossing (Harper & Brothers, 1893) p519</ref> 
* [[December 1]] &ndash; The slave ship ''[[Fredensborg (slave ship)|Fredensborg]]'' sinks off [[Tromøya]], [[Norway]].
* [[December 10]]
** The [[Royal Academy]] is founded in London, with [[Joshua Reynolds]] as its first [[President (corporate title)|President]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
** The first of the weekly numbers of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', edited by [[William Smellie (encyclopedist)|William Smellie]], are published in [[Edinburgh]]; one hundred are planned.
* [[December 15]] &ndash; The king's refusal to sign state documents results in the [[December Crisis (1768)]] in Sweden. 
* [[December 21]] &ndash; King [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]] unifies several small kingdoms to establish  modern-day [[Nepal]]; this kingdom will collapse in [[2008]].