Year 1868 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1868

The year 1868 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1868 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
23 June	Christopher L. Sholes received a patent for a typewriter.
25 June	US President Andrew Johnson passed a law for government employees to work eight hours a day.
20 February	The first weekly issue of Amrit Bazar Patrika was published in Bengali.
16 January	The refrigerator car was patented by William Davis, a fish trader in Detroit.
10 February	The British War Office approved the formation of the Army Post Office Corps.
24 March	The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was formed.
01 April	Hampton General and Agricultural Institute was established in the Hamptons of Virginia.
31 May	The first popular bicycle race was held at Paris de Saint-Cloud.
02 June	The first Trades Union Congress was held in Manchester, England.
09 July	The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution was approved.
13 August	Earthquakes in Peru and Ecuador killed 25,000 people and caused $ 300 million in damage.
28 September	The Battle of Elkolle caused Spain's queen Isabella II to flee France.
28 October	Thomas Edison made his first patent electric vote recorder.
03 November	US presidential election 1868: Ulysses S. Grant defeated Hortio Seymour in the election.
05 December	The first American Bicycle College opened.
27 January	Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
24 February	Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. President to be impeached.
10 April	A British military campaign for Abycinia ended in a tug of war in Ethiopia and later Emperor Todros II committed suicide.
14 May	Boshin War-Troops of Tokugawa removed Untunomia Castle's Brett and moved backwards towards Nikko and Aizu.
14 May	Boshin War: Tokugawa Aizu's soldiers opted out of the battle of Untunomia Castle and retreated north
23 June	Christopher Latham Sholes found a patent for an invention he called "Type-Writer". Christopher Latham Shools was an American inventor who first invented practical typewriter and QWERTY keyboard that is still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and a politician of Wisconsin.
09 July	The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, including the citizenship section and the same security segment, was determined by the minimum essential twenty -seven American states.
13 August	A major earthquake near Peru's Arika caused an estimated 25,000 sqft, and the later tsunami caused great damage as Hawaii and New Zealand.
23 September	Remone Emeterio Basens led a rebellious Spanish rule Grito de Lares at Puerto Rico.
25 September	Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky ruined the northwest juteland, almost the Grand Duke Alexi drowned.
07 October	The University University was inaugurated in Ethaka, New York, with an initial enrollment of 412 students the next day.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
10 April	In Ethiopia, the British and Indian Army defeated the army of Tavodroz II and 700 Ethiopians were killed in this war, while only two British-Indian soldiers were martyred.
18 August	During the total solar eclipse in Guntur, India, astronomer Pierre Zainsen discovered helium by analyzing the sun's ocrromosphor.

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