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.
- March 12, 1868 – Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- 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 10, 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
- April 11, 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- May 14, 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- May 16, 1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
- May 29, 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
- June 1, 1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- July 9, 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
- 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 13, 1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
- 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.
- October 7, 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- October 10, 1868 – Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba’s independence
- November 2, 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
- 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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