In history, year 1868 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1868.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 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 expedition to Abyssinia culminated in a route of Ethiopians and the later suicide of Emperor Tewodros II. |
| 14 may | Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikk? and Aizu. |
| 23 june | Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer." Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. |
| 09 july | The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, wasratified by the minimum required twenty-eight U.S. states. |
| 13 august | A major earthquake near Arica, Peru, caused an estimated 25,000casualties, and the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as faraway as Hawaii and New Zealand. |
| 18 august | Astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium while analyzing thechromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India. |
| 23 september | Ramón Emeterio Betances led the Grito de Lares, a revoltagainst Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. |
| 25 september | The Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky wrecked off northwesternJutland, nearly drowning Grand Duke Alexei. |
| 07 october | Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was inaugurated, withan initial enrollment of 412 students the next day. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 April | Edmond Rostand / Poet / France |
| 04 October | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear / Politician / Argentina |
| 04 July | Henrietta Swan Leavitt / Academic / United States of America |
| 05 August | Oskar Merikanto / Composer / Finland |
| 07 June | Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Painter / Scotland |
| 08 September | Seth Weeks / Composer / United States of America |
| 10 August | Hugo Eckener / Pilot / Germany |
| 12 October | August Horch / Engineer / Germany |
| 14 July | Gertrude Bell / Archaeologist / United Kingdom |
| 16 August | Bernarr Macfadden / Publisher / United States of America |
| 17 July | Henri Nathansen / Director / Denmark |
| 18 January | Kantarō Suzuki / Politician / Japan |
| 20 July | Miron Cristea / Politician / Romania |
| 21 April | Alfred Henry Maurer / Painter / United States of America |
| 22 September | Louise McKinney / Politician / Canada |
| 22 May | Augusto Pestana / Politician / Brazil |
| 22 March | Robert Andrews Millikan / Physicist / United States of America |
| 23 February | W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian / United States of America |
| 25 January | Juventino Rosas / Violinist / Mexico |
| 27 August | Hong Beom-do / General / Korean |