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| 1768 |
| | | Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth, in England, heading for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A French artist, Jean Baptiste le Prince, discovers the aquatint technique in printmaking | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| 1768 |
| | | Corsica is sold to France by the republic of Genoa | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A border incident at Balta, in the southern Ukraine, sparks a war between Russia and Turkey that will last six years | |
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| 1768 |
| | | The Royal Academy is established in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first president | |
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| 1769 |
| | | Captain Cook's distinguished passengers, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, collect valuable specimens of Pacific flora | |
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| 1769 |
| | | Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra begins work at San Diego de Cala, the first of his nine California missions | |
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| 1769 |
| | | Captain Cook observes in Tahiti the transit of Venus, the primary purpose of his voyage to the Pacific | |
|  | Hodges Tahiti Revisited (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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| 1769 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte is born a French citizen in Ajaccio, in Corsica, the son of a local lawyer | |
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