Information about 1868
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s |
| Years: | 1865 1866 1867 - 1868 - 1869 1870 1871 |
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Events of 1868
January - March
- January 3 - Meiji Emperor declares "Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
- January 5 - War of the Triple Alliance: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside
- January 6 - Asa Mercer and number of new "Mercer Girls" sail from Massachusetts for West Coast - they arrive in Seattle on May 23.
- January 10 - Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares emperor's declaration "illegal" and attacks Kyoto. Pro-Emperor forces drive his troops away. Shogun surrenders in May.
- January 25 - Ethiopian War. Colonel Robert Alexander Dunn, VC, accidentally shoots himself to death while marching from the coast to Magdala.
- February 13 - The War Office sanctions the formation of what will become the Army Post Office Corps.
- February 16 - In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).
- February 24 - The first parade to have floats occurs at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- February 24 - After Andrew Johnson tried to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, he becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. Johnson would later be acquitted by the United States Senate.
- March 1 - The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- March 5 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
- March 23 - The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into California law.
- March 24 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.
- March 27 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
April - June
- April 1 - Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute is established in Hampton, Virginia
- April 9 - Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia massacres at least 197, perhaps more, of his own people at Magdala. These were prisoners who had been, for the most part, incarcerated for very trivial offenses, and were killed for asking for bread and water.
- April 10 - A British-Indian task force inflicts 700 deaths and a crushing defeat on the army of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia in the Battle of Magdala. The British and Indians suffer 30 wounded, 2 of whom die subsequently.
- April 13 - The Napier Expedition ends with the suicide of Tewodros and the capture of Magdala by the British-Indian task force.
- May 16 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
- May 26 - Last public hanging in Britain - Fenian bomber Michael Barrett
- May 30 - Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time (it was proclaimed on May 5 by General John A. Logan).
- May 31 - Thomas Spence declares himself president of the Republic of Manitoba. He soon alienates the locals
- June 2 - The first Trades Union Congress is held in Manchester, England.
July - September
- July 5 - Preacher William Booth establishes the Christian Mission, predecessor of the Salvation Army, in the East End of London.
- July 25 - Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- July 28 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
- August 18 - Helium is discovered by French astronomer Pierre Janssen (and independently by Joseph Norman Lockyer on August 20).
- August 20 - Abergele Train Disaster: Irish Mail passenger train collides with 4 cargo trucks loaded with paraffin: 33 dead; first major train disaster in Britain.
- August 22 - Yangzhou riot in China targets station of the China Inland Mission and nearly leads to war between Britain and China.
- September 18 - First convocation of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
- September 23 - Rebels in the town of Lares declare Puerto Rico independent. Local militia defeats them a week later.
- late September - Queen Isabella II of Spain is effectively deposed and sent into exile; she will formally abdicate June 25, 1870.
October - December
- October 10 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes declared a revolt against Spanish rule in Cuba in an event known as El Grito de Yara, initiating a war that lasted ten years. Cuba would ultimately lose the war at a cost of 400,000 lives and widespread destruction.
- October 28 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
- November - Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horatio Seymour in the U.S. presidential election.
- November - John Christoff Reichert purchases the home at 506 South Seventh Street, Terre Haute, Indiana, from John S. and Amanda Jordan, for the sum of $450.
- November 2 - New Zealand officially adopts nationally observed standard time, and was perhaps the first country to do so.
- November 27 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.
- December 6 - Battle of Itororó or Ytororó. Field-Marshall Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Marquis of Caxias, leads 13,000 Brazilian troops against a Paraguayan fortified position of 5,000 troops. War of the Triple Alliance
- December 11 - Battle of Avahy or Battle of Avaí: Field-Marshall Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Marquis of Caxias, leads 17,000 troops (Brazilians at most) against 4,000 Paraguayans (during War of the Triple Alliance).
- December 21 and December 27 - Battle of Lomas Valentinas: Two-days of battle between Triple Alliance forces under command of Field-Marshall Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Marquis of Caxias, and Paraguayan forces under president Solano López (during War of the Triple Alliance).
- December 25 - US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.
Undated
- Thomas Henry Huxley discovers what he thinks is a primordial matter and names it bathybius haecklii (he admits his mistake in 1871)
- German ophthalmologist August Rothmund defines Rothmund-Thompson's syndrome.
- First edition of the World Almanac published.
- Académie Julian - a major art school in Paris, France that admitted women.
- The Dortmunder Actien Brauerei is founded in Germany.
- Selected parts of the Finnish epic, Kalevala published for the first time in the English Language. By John Addison Porter.
- Brisbane Grammar School was founded, providing the opportunity for secondary education for the first time in the colony of Brisbane in Australia.
- Founding of Lake City, Michigan by Daniel Reeder.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1868 MDCCCLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2621 |
| Armenian calendar | 1317 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԷ |
| Bah' calendar | 24 – 25 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2412 |
| Chinese calendar | 4504/4564-8-5 (丁卯年八月初五日) — to — 4505/4565-6-13(戊辰年六月十三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1584 – 1585 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1860 – 1861 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5628 – 5629 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1923 – 1924 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1790 – 1791 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4969 – 4970 |
| Holocene calendar | 11868 |
| Iranian calendar | 1246 – 1247 |
| Islamic calendar | 1285 – 1286 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 0 (明治0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2528 (皇紀2528年) |
| Julian calendar | 1913 |
| Korean calendar | 4201 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2411 |
January - June
- January 9 - S.P.L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
- January 11 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
- January 31 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
- February 10 - William Allen White, American journalist (d. 1944)
- February 14 - Dr. Theophilus Algernon Tanner, a fictional character from the Deathlands series of books.
- February 23 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
- February 26 - Venceslau Brás, Brazilian president (d. 1966)
- March 14 - Emily Murphy, Canadian woman's rights activist (d. 1933)
- March 22 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- March 25 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
- March 28 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
- April 10 - George Arliss, English actor (d. 1946)
- April 28 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
- May 6 - Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
- May 6 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
- May 29 - Abdul Mejid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1944)
- June 5 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
- June 7 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (d. 1928)
- June 14 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1943)
- June 18 - Georges Lacombe, French artist (d. 1916)
July - December
- July 12 - Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
- July 14 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
- August 23 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist. (d. 1950)
- August 26 - Charles Stewart, Premier of Alberta (d. 1946)
- September 1 - Henri Bourassa, Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
- September 6 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (d. 1947)
- September 17 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
- October 18 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
- November 7 - Delfim Moreira, Brazilian president (d. 1920)
- November 8 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
- November 9 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
- November 14 - Arthur Hoey Davis, Australian author (d. 1935)
- November 22 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
- December 9 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
Unknown dates
- Musa Jan Khan, Emir of Ghazni (d. 1951)
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Deaths
January - June
- February 11 - Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)
- February 29 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
- March 4 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer (b. 1805)
- March 28 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
- April 3 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (b. 1796)
- April 7 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist, politician and Canadian father of confederation (assassinated) (b. 1825)
- April 13 - Emperor Theodore or Tewodros II of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), by suicide (b. 1818)
- May 7 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
- May 10 - Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
- May 17 - Isami Kondo, Commander of the Shinsengumi (b. 1834)
- May 23 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
- June 1 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
- June 22 - Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (b. 1801)
July - December
- July 6 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
- July 19 - Soji Okita, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1842 or 1844)
- September 26 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
- October 17 - Laura Secord, Canadian patriot (b. 1775)
- October 18 - Mongkut, Rama IV, King of Thailand (b. 1804)
- October 27 - Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1794)
- November 13 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
- November 15 - James Mayer Rothschild, German-born banker (b. 1792)
- December 6 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
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- January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
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Governors of the Australian colonies:- Governor of New South Wales - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore
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- April 7 - Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by Irish Fenians.
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- 26 May - Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, publicly executed outside the walls of Newgate Prison, for his part in the Clerkenwell bombing of 1867.
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