1868

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s  1840s  1850s  – 1860s –  1870s  1880s  1890s
Years:	1865 1866 1867 – 1868 – 1869 1870 1871

1868 Media

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  January 3: Emperor Meiji.

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  July 25: Wyoming Territory.

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  November 27: Battle of Washita River.

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  The Countess Markiewicz (1887–1927)

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  Nicolás II de Rusia, 1913.

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  John L. Hines, 11th Chief of Staff of the Army

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  Crop of Robert Falcon Scott in full regalia: this was reproduced as a frontispiece for Scott's The Voyage of the Discovery (London 1905)

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1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• Helium is discovered.
• Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women is published.
• Meiji Restoration in Japan.

Births

• Francisco Carreón

Deaths

June 1 - James Buchanan, 77, fifteenth President of the United States, respiratory failure (b. 1791)