| 8th January 1968 | Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay. |
| 13th January 1968 | Johnny Cash records “Live at Folsom Prison“. |
| 6-18th February 1968 | The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France. |
| 12th March 1968 | Mauritius achieves independence from British rule. |
| 4th April 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterwards. |
| 7th April 1968 | Scottish racing driver Jim Clark is killed in an unscheduled Formula Two race at Hockenheim. |
| 20th April 1968 | English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech about immigration and anti-discrimination. |
| 29th May 1968 | Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup Final. |
| 10th June 1968 | Italy beats Yugoslavia 2-0 in a replay to win the 1968 European Football Championship. The original final was played on 8th June and had ended 1-1. |
| 4th July 1968 | Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth following his 354-day round-the-world trip. |
| 17th July 1968 | Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état. |
| 30th July 1968 | Thames Television begins transmission in London. |
| 11th August 1968 | The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile return journey from Liverpool to Carlisle, before having their fires dropped for the final time. |
| 5th October 1968 | Police baton charge civil rights demonstrators in Derry, marking the beginning of The Troubles; a period of religious-political conflict in Northern Ireland. |
| 12-27th October 1968 | The Summer Olympics take place in Mexico City. The event is officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad. |
| 22nd November 1968 | The Beatles release “White Album“. |
| 3rd December 1968 | Elvis Presley returns to live performances in a special Christmas television programme that would later be dubbed the “'68 Comeback Special”. |
| 10th December 1968 | Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 Million Yen Robbery", takes place in Tokyo. |