Timeline June 1768

Events in June 1768 3

• 1717 – 1768 Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) Died 8 June 1768, aged 50 Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist whose writings on classical Greek art founded the modern discipline of art history. He was murdered in a Trieste inn by an acquaintance who robbed him shortly after he received honors from the Austrian court. His death shocked European intellectual circles.
• 1768 Seizure of the sloop Liberty in Boston Customs seizure sparks riots over British taxation British customs officials seized John Hancock's sloop Liberty in Boston harbor on suspicion of smuggling, triggering riots against crown officials. The confrontation escalated colonial resentment of British trade enforcement and contributed directly to the dispatch of troops to Boston later that year. It became one of the flashpoints leading toward the American Revolution.
• 1768 – 1797 Lazare Hoche (1768-1797) Died 19 September 1797, aged 29 Hoche was a French Revolutionary general who rose rapidly through the ranks, suppressing royalist uprisings in the Vendee and commanding armies along the Rhine. He died suddenly, possibly of tuberculosis or poisoning, at the height of his career. His death removed a potential rival to Napoleon Bonaparte's rising influence.