1868 Calendar
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1868 Historical Event(s)
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 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 29, 1868
– The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
July 25, 1868
– Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
October 7, 1868
– Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
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 11, 1868
– Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avaí during the War of the Triple Alliance.
December 15, 1868
– Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
Who Were Born On 1868?
January 31, 1868
– Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928)
March 28, 1868
– Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
June 6, 1868
– Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
July 14, 1868
– Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator (d. 1926)
August 7, 1868
– Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
August 25, 1868
– Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter (d. unknown)
September 14, 1868
– Théodore Botrel, was a French singer-songwriter, poet and playwright(d. 1925)
October 19, 1868
– Bertha Landes, American politician (d. 1943)
November 4, 1868
– Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
December 9, 1868
– Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)