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.

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

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC ( 14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958 ), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom.

His fourth son, Edgar Alfred Bowring, was a Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1868 to 1874.

He illustrated many important bird books, including Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ( 1873, 1888 ), William Vincent Legge's History of the Birds of Ceylon ( 1880 ), Daniel Giraud Elliot's Monograph of the Bucerotidae ( hornbills ) ( 1887 – 1892 ), Richard Bowdler Sharpe's Monograph of the Alcedinidae ( kingfishers ) ( 1868 – 1871 ), Henry Seebohm's Monograph of the Turdidae ( thrushes ) ( 1902 ), Osbert Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana ( 1879 – 1904 ), Edgar Leopold Layard's Birds of South Africa ( 1887 ) and Henry Eeles Dresser's History of the Birds of Europe ( 1871 – 1896 ), and a single illustration in The Journal of the Linnean Society.

Before the pre-Ashes Test-playing tour to Australia in 1876 – 77, Lillywhite also joined tours to North America in 1868 in a team led by Edgar Willsher, to Australia in 1873 – 74 in a team led by W. G.

In April 1868, Lee said that he " had never made any such promise, and had never thought of doing any such thing.

* William Lee Stoddart ( 1868 – 1940 ), architect noted for hotels of the pre-World War II era.

It was founded by Robert Lee Stowe Sr. ( 1866 – 1963 ), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe ( 1868 – 1956 ), and Abel Caleb Lineberger ( 1859 – 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had founded Gaston County's second textile mill, the Woodlawn, or " Pinhook ," Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1852 ).

President's House, begun in 1868 as residence for General Robert E. Lee

Grant supposedly confessed to the crime, saying the murder was part of a larger plot to seek revenge for the killing of Lee Morrison, a black individual from Helena who had been hanged on September 27, 1868.

* Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham ( 1868 – 1947 ), British soldier and diplomat

# Prince Wanhwa ( 완화군, 16 April 1868 – 12 January 1880 ), only son of Lee Gwi-in of the Yeongbo Hall.

* Robert Emmett Lee ( 1868 – 1916 ), Democratic member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

In 1868 the Lee Conservancy Board was formed to take over control of the river from the former trustees.

* Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet ( 1798 – 1868 )

Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet ( 1 November 1798 – 19 May 1868 ) was an Irish brewer and philanthropist.

Although the original Lee trustees, and after 1868 the Conservators of the River Lee, were officially responsible for the Bow Back Rivers, there was little incentive to maintain them, since they did not generate any revenue.

The Contee's children were Sarah “ Sallie ” Elinor Contee ( 1789 – c. 1815 ), Philip Ashton Lee Contee, Sr. ( 1795 – 1842 ), Edmund Henry Contee ( 1799 – 1832 ), and Alice Lee Contee ( 1803 – 1868 ), who married Gov.

Samuel and Maria had three children: James Monroe Gouverneur ( 1822 – 1885 ), a deaf-mute who died at the Spring Grove Asylum in Baltimore, Maryland ; Elizabeth Kortright Gouverneur ( 1824 – 1868 ) who married Henry Lee Heiskell ; and Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, Jr. ( 1826 – 1880 ), who married Marian Campbell ( 1821 – 1914 ), and became the first U. S. consul in Fuzhou, China ( then spelled Foo Chow ).

The accurate story is told in the diaries of Lee and Kaiser who were on the Missouri River in 1868 when Johnston was given his moniker, after a rainy fight with the Sioux.

* John C. Lee ( 1828 – 1891 ), American Republican politician ; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1868 – 1872

Joseph married Alice Lee Contee ( 1803 – 1868 ) on July 8, 1828 at " Bromont ", near Newburg, Charles Co., Maryland.

In 1868 Cook tracked down the notorious Musgrove-Franklin Gang, who were credited with twelve murders, and apprehended gang leader Lee H. Musgrove in the Wyoming Territory.

* 1868 – 1874: Unknown-Possibly Robert E. Lee ( Whig )

Robert Lee Williams ( December 20, 1868 – April 10, 1948 ) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the third Governor of Oklahoma.

Robert Lee Williams was born on December 20, 1868 in at Brundidge, Alabama.