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 – 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

* February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat ( b. 1868 )

The mime " Tombre " of Jean Richepin's novel Nice People ( Braves Gens ) turned him into a pathetic and alcoholic " phantom "; Paul Verlaine imagined him as a gormandizing naïf in " Pantomime " ( 1869 ), then, like Tombre, as a lightning-lit specter in " Pierrot " ( 1868, pub.

Image: Paul Cézanne 127. jpg | Paul Cézanne, Portrait of Achille Emperaire, 1868

* Paul Warburg ( 1868 – 1932 ), German-American banker and early advocate of the U. S Federal Reserve system.

Her younger brother Paul Claudel was born there in 1868.

* Marquard, Paul ( 1868 ).

In 1868 and 1869, the St. Paul, Pacific and Manitoba Railroad was built through Maple Plain.

Other translations include those of Paul Béesau ( 1868 ), Gaston Pérot ( 1902, in verse ), Nata Minor ( received the Prix Nelly Sachs, given to the best translation into French of poetry ), Roger Legras, Maurice Colin, Michel Bayat and Jean-Louis Backès ( does not preserve the stanzas ).

* Alexander Ramsey House ( 1868 ), St. Paul, Minnesota, Sheire and Summers, architects.

It gained separate status in 1868 when the new chapel, dedicated to St Paul, was constructed.

Among other famous vacationers of Sillamäggi were poet Konstantin Balmont ( 1905 ), painter Albert Benois ( 1898 and 1899 ), physicist Paul Ehrenfest ( 1908 – 1912 ), botanist Andrei Famintsyn ( 1890s ), historian Mikhail Gershenzon ( 1911 – 1914 ), inventor Boris Rosing ( 1902 – 1911 ), composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( 1868 ).

The Pioneer Press traces its history back to both the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first daily newspaper ( which was founded in 1849 by James M. Goodhue ), and the Saint Paul Dispatch ( which was launched in 1868 ).

The commune was the birthplace of Paul Claudel ( 1868 – 1955 ), poet and diplomat.

Szigligeti's most successful tragedies were Gritti ( 1844 ), Paul Beldi ( 1856 ), Light's Shadows ( 1865 ), Struensee ( i & ii ), Valeriaa and The Pretender ( 1868 ).

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 ".

Paul Moritz Warburg ( August 10, 1868 – January 24, 1932 ) was a German-born American banker and early advocate of the U. S. Federal Reserve System.

Austin Dowling ( April 6, 1868 – November 29, 1930 ) was the second Archbishop and fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

The story has been the subject of notable paintings by Agnolo Bronzino, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Honoré Daumier, Edward Burne-Jones ( four major works from 1868 – 1870, then again in larger versions from 1875 – 1878 with the title Pygmalion and the Image ), Auguste Rodin, Ernest Normand, Paul Delvaux, Francisco Goya, Franz von Stuck, François Boucher, and Thomas Rowlandson, among others.

* Paul Claudel ( 1868 – 1955 ), French poet and diplomat

Its inauguration on 10 January 1868 was reported by the Bombay Gazette in the following terms :- " The new school-room of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was blessed and declared open a few days ago.

** Paul M ( oritz ) Warburg ( 1868 – 1932 ), father of the Federal Reserve.

The Church was founded in 1868 by Hans Peter Boerresen, a Dane, and Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, a Norwegian .. NELC missionary Paul Olaf Bodding invented the Santali latin alphabet that is still used by people in the region today.

* 15 January – Paul Raphael Montford ( born 1868 ), sculptor