1868 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1868?
- January 3, 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- February 24, 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
- March 8, 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
- March 12, 1868 – Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- March 23, 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
- April 7, 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
- April 11, 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- May 26, 1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
- May 30, 1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern “Memorial Day”) is observed in the United States for the first time (By “Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic” John A. Logan’s proclamation on May 5).
- June 1, 1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- July 25, 1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- July 28, 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
- August 18, 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
- September 23, 1868 – Grito de Lares (“Lares Revolt”) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
- September 25, 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
- September 28, 1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- November 2, 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
- November 27, 1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- December 10, 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
- December 25, 1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
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