Today in History for Year 1868

Months in Year 1868: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 112

Jan 3rd - Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
Jan 7th - Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
Jan 7th - Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
Jan 14th - NC constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
Jan 14th - SC constitutional convention, meets with a black majority
Jan 16th - Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
Jan 20th - Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
Feb 10th - Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
Feb 16th - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms (NY)
Feb 24th - 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
Feb 24th - House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
Feb 29th - 1st British government of Disraeli forms
Mar 2nd - University of Illinois opens
Mar 5th - Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan
Mar 5th - Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
Mar 5th - US Senate organizes to decide charges against Pres Andrew Johnson
Mar 9th - The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
Mar 12th - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
Mar 12th - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
Mar 12th - Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Mar 13th - Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
Mar 17th - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
Outlaw Jesse James Mar 20th - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000
Mar 21st - 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
Mar 23rd - University of California founded (Oakland California)
Mar 24th - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
Mar 27th - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
Mar 31st - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
Apr 1st - Hampton Institute opens
Apr 3rd - An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
Apr 7th - 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 only federal politician.
Apr 10th - 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
Apr 10th - British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
Apr 11th - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
Apr 13th - Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor commits suicide
Apr 14th - SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
Apr 16th - Louisiana voters approve new constitution
Apr 18th - San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
May 9th - Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
May 9th - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
May 14th - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
May 15th - Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
May 16th - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
May 16th - By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
May 20th - Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
May 22nd - Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash
May 25th - Aust Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
May 26th - President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
May 29th - The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
May 30th - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
May 31st - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
May 31st - Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
Jun 1st - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
Jun 1st - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
Jun 4th - Van Bosse/Fock government begins
Jun 9th - 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
Jun 10th - 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
Jun 13th - Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
Jun 19th - Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
Jun 21st - Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
Jun 22nd - Arkansas re-enters US
Jun 23rd - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
Jun 25th - FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
Jun 25th - Pres Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
Jul 4th - Battle at Ueno, Japan: last Tokugawa armies defeated
Jul 7th - Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
Jul 9th - 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
Jul 13th - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
Jul 14th - Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
Jul 20th - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
Jul 25th - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
Jul 28th - 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
Aug 8th - Quake destroyes Arica Chile
Aug 13th - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
Aug 18th - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
Sep 8th - NY Athletic Club forms
Sep 14th - Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
Sep 22nd - Race riots in New Orleans La
Sep 23rd - Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
Sep 25th - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
Sep 28th - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
Sep 28th - Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
Sep 30th - Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France
Oct 1st - 1st edition of Maasbode published
Oct 7th - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
Oct 10th - 1st written account of a Canadian football game
Oct 10th - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
Inventor Thomas Edison Oct 11th - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
Oct 17th - Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
Oct 21st - Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
Oct 22nd - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in NYC
Oct 26th - White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
Oct 30th - John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress
Oct 31st - Standard uniform approved for postal carriers
Nov 2nd - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
Nov 3rd - 1st black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
Nov 3rd - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
Nov 11th - 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
Nov 13th - American Philological Association organized in NY
Nov 23rd - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 139

Jan 1st - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
Jan 3rd - Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian
Jan 6th - Vittorio Monti, composer
Jan 7th - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist
Jan 8th - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
Jan 9th - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
Jan 11th - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
Jan 14th - Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author (Belief)
Jan 15th - Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
Jan 16th - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer
Jan 19th - Gustav Meyrink, writer
Jan 23rd - Juventino Rosas, composer
Jan 27th - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera)
Jan 28th - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
Jan 28th - Julian Aguirre, composer
Jan 31st - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
Feb 3rd - Damaso Ledesma, composer
Feb 4th - Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP
Feb 5th - Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
Feb 10th - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
Feb 12th - Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP/founder (SDAP)
Feb 14th - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman
Feb 16th - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos)
Feb 22nd - Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
Feb 23rd - William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk)
Feb 25th - Anthony J Block, Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
Feb 26th - Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
Mar 3rd - Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
Mar 5th - Prosper Poullet, Belgian viscount/jurist/minister
Mar 15th - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
Mar 20th - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm)
Mar 22nd - Hamish MacCunn, composer
Mar 22nd - Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
Mar 22nd - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
Mar 23rd - Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)
Mar 25th - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)
Mar 26th - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
Mar 27th - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
Mar 28th - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter
Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (Mar 28th) Mar 28th - Maxim Gorky [Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths)
Mar 28th - Wojciech Gawronski, composer
Mar 31st - Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
Apr 1st - Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Apr 2nd - Eduard Jacobs, singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret)
Apr 5th - J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892)
Apr 10th - George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
Apr 12th - Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
Apr 13th - John Blackwood McEwen, composer
Apr 14th - Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
Apr 16th - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
Apr 16th - Spottiswoode Aitken, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
Apr 17th - Charles R Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary)
Apr 18th - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
Apr 19th - Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
Apr 22nd - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
Apr 22nd - Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
Apr 25th - John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910)
Apr 26th - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
Apr 26th - Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot)
Apr 28th - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
May 6th - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
May 6th - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
May 10th - Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
May 12th - Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
May 13th - Paolo Gallico, composer
May 17th - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II (May 18th) May 18th - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
May 24th - Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)
May 28th - Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
Jun 3rd - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
Jun 5th - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
Jun 6th - Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
Jun 7th - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
Jun 14th - Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
Jun 18th - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent (1910-44)
Jun 19th - Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
Jun 20th - Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
Jun 21st - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
Jun 29th - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
Jun 30th - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
Jul 4th - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott (Jun 6th) Jul 5th - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum, Laren)
Jul 6th - Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
Jul 6th - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
Jul 12th - Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal)
Jul 14th - Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), (d. 1926)
Jul 20th - Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
Jul 28th - George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
Jul 28th - Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran)
Jul 30th - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
Aug 2nd - Constantine I, king of Greece
Aug 5th - Oskar Merikanto, composer
Aug 6th - Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
Aug 7th - Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony)
Aug 7th - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
Aug 12th - Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (Jul 14th) Aug 14th - Leone Sinigaglia, composer
Aug 16th - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
Aug 16th - Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate and (d. 1955)
Aug 20th - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Apr 6th - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 62 of 62

Jan 3rd - Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75
Jan 7th - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51
Jan 14th - Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at 66
Jan 22nd - Moritz Ganz, composer, dies at 61
Jan 28th - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62
Feb 11th - Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
Feb 29th - Ludwig/Louis I, King of Bavaria, dies at 81
Mar 2nd - Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81
Mar 4th - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
Mar 28th - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70
Apr 3rd - Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71
Apr 7th - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
Apr 13th - Tewodros II / Theodorus II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818) commits suicide
Apr 21st - Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
May 3rd - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68
May 7th - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
May 10th - Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
May 17th - Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
May 22nd - Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
May 23rd - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
May 26th - Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
May 29th - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
US President James Buchanan (Jun 1st) Jun 1st - James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
Jun 5th - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73
Jun 9th - James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68), dies
Jun 10th - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered
Jun 22nd - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
Jun 25th - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
Jul 6th - Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71
Jul 6th - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
Jul 10th - Carlo Conti, composer, dies at 71
Jul 15th - William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies
Jul 16th - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87
Jul 19th - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
Jul 20th - Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75
Jul 20th - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62
Jul 22nd - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51
Jul 24th - George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
Aug 5th - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
Aug 11th - Halfdan Kierulf, composer, dies at 52
Aug 11th - Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
Aug 25th - Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
Aug 25th - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
Aug 25th - Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66
Aug 27th - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82
Sep 6th - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
Sep 10th - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer, dies at 79
Sep 17th - Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies
Sep 19th - William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
Sep 26th - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
Sep 27th - Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies
Sep 28th - Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney/Confederate gen-mjr, shot at 40
Oct 1st - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63
Oct 6th - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
Oct 17th - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
Oct 26th - B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
Nov 13th - Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini, composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
Nov 19th - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
Dec 6th - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
Dec 13th - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
Dec 24th - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
Dec 25th - Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies