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.

* 1868 – Constantine I of Greece ( d. 1923 )

* 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

In 1868, Commander-in-Chief General John A. Logan established May 30 as Decoration Day, later known as Memorial Day.

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).

* Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba ' independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years ' War in 1868.

Sullivan wrote a group of seven part songs in 1868, the best-known of which is " The Long Day Closes ".

Seward has celebrated the United States ' July 4 Independence Day almost every year since 1868.

Two years later, in 1868, the foundation stone was laid by the Archbishop of Canterbury on St Mark's Day ( April 25, John Keble's birthday ).

In 1868, General John A. Logan, who was the commander in chief of the Union Civil War Veterans Fraternity called the Grand Army of the Republic ( GAR ), launched the Memorial Day holiday that is currently observed in the entire United States.

The Cathedral rebuilding project was completed in full by March 13, 1868, and rededicated four days later on St. Patrick ’ s Day by Archbishop McCloskey, and assisted by the pastor of the Cathedral, Father William Starrs.

* Jeremiah Day ( 1773 – 1868 )— President of Yale University.

The Methodist Episcopal Church at the Methodist Conference of 1868 recommended that second Sunday in June be annually observed as Children's Day.

* Alexander, b & d 1853 ; Ellen Day, 1854 – 1939 ; Arthur, 1859 – 1939 ; Charles Alexander, 1861 – 1867 ; Edward Everett, Jr., 1863 – 1932 ; Philip Leslie, 1865 – 1931 ; Herbert Dudley, 1866 – 1908 ; Henry Kidder, 1868 – 1876 ; Robert Beverly, 1869-1895.

In 1868, Nicolaus Delius proposed George Wilkins as this unknown collaborator ; a century later, F. D. Hoeneger proposed John Day.

Heber Chase Kimball ( June 14, 1801 – June 22, 1868 ) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement.

Among his more important works may be named Women Gleaning, and The Day after St Sebastian's Day ( 1855 ), which gained him a third-class medal ; Blessing the Fields ( 1857 ), a second-class medal ; Erecting a Calvary ( 1859 ), now in the Lille gallery ; The Return of the Gleaners ( 1859 ), now in the Luxembourg ; Evening and Women Weeding ( 1861 ), a first-class medal ; Grandfather's Birthday ( 1862 ); The Close of Day ( 1865 ); Harvest ( 1867 ); Potato Gatherers ( 1868 ); A Pardon, Brittany ( 1869 ); The Fountain ( 1872 ), medal of honour ; The Bonfires of St John ( 1875 ); Women mending Nets ( 1876 ), in the Douai museum ; A Gleaner ( 1877 ), Luxembourg ; Evening, Finistère ( 1881 ); The Song of the Lark ( 1884 ); The Last Sunbeam ( 1885 ); The Shepherd's Star ( 1888 ); The Call Home ( 1889 ); The Last Gleanings ( 1895 ); Gathering Poppies ( 1897 ); The Alarm Cry ( 1899 ); Twilight Glory ( 1900 ).

On March 17, 1868, Whelan acted as the Assistant Marshal of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ottawa.

The Post Office opened on 25 January 1868, was known as Break O ' Day until 1876, and closed in 1993.

The chiefs Wabanquot ( White Cloud ), a Gull Lake Mississippi Chippewa, and Fine Day, of the Removable Mille Lacs Indians, were among the first to move with their followers to White Earth in 1868.

He is perhaps best remembered today for his lyrics to " The Long Day Closes ", a part song set by Arthur Sullivan in 1868.

Cornell's colors, carnelian red and white, date back to the university's Inauguration Day on October 7, 1868.