President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* 1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1918 )

* 1868 – Hong Beom-do, Korean activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 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.

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

* 1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician ( d. 1931 )

* 1868 – Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder, author, and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications ( d. 1955 )

* 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.

* 1786 – Ludwig I of Bavaria ( d. 1868 )

* 1868 – Nikolaos Levidis, Greek target shooter

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

* 1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.

* 1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author ( d. 1950 )

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

* 1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect and designer ( d. 1940 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

* Charles Aubrey Eaton ( 1868 – 1953 ), clergyman and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the from 1925 – 1933, and the from 1933-1953.

* 1868 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman ( d. 1954 )

* 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

* 1868 – Henry James O ' Farrell, Australian attempted assassin of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

* January 11 – Constantine I of Greece, King of Greece ( b. 1868 )

In the independent Kingdom of Greece, the style of Duke of Sparta was instituted in 1868 upon the birth of Constantine I as a distinct title for the crown prince of Greece.

Born on 2 August 1868 in Athens, Constantine was the eldest son of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece.

Alexander was born on 1 August 1893 ( 20 July in the Julian calendar ), the second son of Crown Prince Constantine of Greece ( 1868 – 1923 ) and his wife Princess Sophia of Prussia ( 1870 – 1932 ).

Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse ( 1 May 1868, Gut Panker – 28 May 1940, Kassel ), Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel in German, was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor William II and the elected King of Finland from 9 October to 14 December 1918.

* Constantine I of Greece ( 1868 – 1923, reigned 1913 – 17, 1920 – 22 )

However, the Diadochos from 1868 until 1913 – i. e. Crown Prince Constantine, the later King Constantine I of Greece – enjoyed the specific geographic style of Duke of Sparta.

# Constantine I, King of the Hellenes ( August 2, 1868 – February 6, 1923 )

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark ( born Katherine zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Greece and Denmark ) () ( 4 May 1913 – 2 October 2007 ) was the third daughter and sixth child of King Constantine I of Greece ( 1868 – 1923 ) and Queen Sophie ( 1870 – 1932 ).

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

* 1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria ( b. 1786 )

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One afternoon of November, 1868, in the Park at Hawarden, I was standing by Mr. Gladstone holding his coat on my arm while he, in his shirt sleeves, was wielding an axe to cut down a tree.

* April 28 – Fuad I of Egypt, King of Egypt ( b. 1868 )

* August 25 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria ( d. 1868 )

The royal couple undertook a six-month tour taking in Austria, Egypt and Greece over 1868 and 1869, which included visits to her brother King George I of Greece, to the Crimean battlefields and ( for her only ) to the harem of the Khedive Ismail.

In 1868 he informed Galabert that he had been very ill with abscesses in the windpipe: " I suffered like a dog ".

Ludwig I ( also rendered in English as Louis I ; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868 ) was a German king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states.

I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru's War, New Zealand 1868 – 1869.

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In Jean Joseph Gaume's Life of the Good Thief ( Histoire Du Bon Larron French 1868, English 1882 ), Saint Augustine said ; the thief said to Jesus, the child: " O most blessed of children, if ever a time should come when I shall crave Thy Mercy, remember me and forget not what has passed this day.

* Sidste Blade I – III ( articles ) 1868 – 73

* Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski ( 4 May 1810 – 27 October 1868 ), her son from her relationship with Napoleon I became an important figure in the 19th century French politics: he was an influential diplomat and a cabinet minister.

* Ludwig I of Bavaria ( 1786 – 1868 )

He had chosen to study mathematics at Cambridge because, in his own words in his 1868 application for the professorship, " From my earliest recollection I have had an irresistible liking for mechanics and the physical laws on which mechanics as a science is based .... my attention drawn to various mechanical phenomena, for the explanation of which I discovered that a knowledge of mathematics was essential.

Cover of Volume I, No. 49 of Harper's Bazar ( Now Harper's Bazaar ), showing hairstyles ( 1868 )

He produced his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868, and of Louis d ' Orleans of 1869 ( at the Château de Pierrefonds ) and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, erected in the Place des Pyramides, Paris ; this he afterwards ( 1889 ) replaced with another version.