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.
- 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.
- May 14, 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- May 26, 1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
- May 29, 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
- 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.
- 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 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
- 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.
- December 25, 1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
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