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 – 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

The first of these local silver coins was the Hong Kong silver dollar coin that was minted in Hong Kong between the years 1866 and 1868.

* William Thomas Mercer ( 1821 – 1879 ), British Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong, 1859 – 1868

The sixth Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Richard MacDonnell had a summer residence built on the Peak circa 1868.

The Chinese did not however receive these new Hong Kong dollars well, and in 1868 the Hong Kong mint was closed down with a loss of $ 440, 000.

He married Mary Anne Goodall ( died January 1918 ) of Handsworth on 7 April 1868 in Hong Kong.

In 1868, he and Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody formed Chater & Mody, a largely successful business partnership in Hong Kong, although the firm's Hong Kong Milling Company ( aka Rennie's Mill ) failed in 1908 and resulted in the suicide of Albert Rennie.

He was appointed as prefect of Hong Kong in Hong Kong on 27 December 1868.

The history of the Hong Kong Fire Service began in the Government Gazette dated May 9, 1868.

The British originally used British postage stamps overprinted with the local currency amount, but from 1868, the British changed to Hong Kong postage stamps already denominated in dollars.

She served from August 2, 1868 until June 1869 and later was used on the San Francisco to Panama City and San Francisco to Hong Kong services until 1879.

She arrived in San Francisco on July 3, 1868 and entered the San Francisco to Hong Kong service.

State funerals have been held in Washington D. C. for William Henry Harrison ( 1841 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1850 ), Abraham Lincoln ( 1865 ), Thaddeus Stevens ( 1868 ), James A. Garfield ( 1881 ), William McKinley ( 1901 ), Warren Harding ( 1920 ), the Unknown Soldier of World War I ( 1921 ), William Howard Taft ( 1930 ), John J. Pershing ( 1948 ), the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War ( 1958 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1963 ), Douglas MacArthur ( 1964 ), Herbert Hoover ( 1964 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1969 ), Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1973 ), Ronald Reagan ( 2004 ), and Gerald Ford ( 2006-2007 ).

Du Bois, American civil rights activist ( b. 1868 )

This playful lullaby was collected in Moravia by František Sušil ( 1804 – 1868 ), a priest and an activist of Czech national revival.

* Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, home of the women's rights activist from 1868 to 1887

* Walerian Łukasiński ( 1786 – 1868 )-was a Polish officer and political activist, sentenced by Russian Imperial authorities to 14 years ' imprisonment, he was never released and died after 46 years.

* Maxim Gorky ( 1868 – 1936 ), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism

Du Bois ( 1868 – 1963 ), African-American activist and scholar

* Hipolit Cegielski ( 1815 – 1868 ), Polish businessman, social and cultural activist

* Karol Bahrke ( 1868 – 1935 ), Polish activist, journalists and book publisher

* October 17-Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire ( b. 1868 )

Du Bois ( February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963 ), sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author, and editor

John Hope ( June 2, 1868 – February 20, 1936 ), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist.

* John Baker ( Baker Brook ) ( 1796 – 1868 ), political activist, founded the village of Baker Brook, New Brunswick

Du Bois ( William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868 – 1963 ), American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and author

Hipolit Cegielski ( 6 January 1813, Ławki – 30 November 1868, Poznań ) was a Polish businessman and social and cultural activist.

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (; ; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944 ) was a French-speaking Belgian author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist ; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called " documentation ".

* Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski ( 1803 – 1868 ), politician, general, activist of Hôtel Lambert

* John Wilhelm Rowntree ( 1868 – 1905 ), chocolate manufacturer and Quaker activist