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.
- January 27, 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
- 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.
- 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 13, 1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
- May 14, 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- 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 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.
- 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 28, 1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 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
- November 30, 1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
- 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 25, 1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
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