1868 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1868?
- 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.
- March 5, 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
- 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 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.
- 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 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.
- 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
- November 30, 1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
- December 15, 1868 – Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
- December 25, 1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
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