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

Their plans fell far short of their desires, and collaboration was then begun with the State of California, which culminated in 1868 with the creation of the public University of California.

In 1868, he visited sites in the Greek world, published Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy, and submitted a dissertation in Ancient Greek proposing the same thesis to the University of Rostock.

* Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja ' ( 1868 ) ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010.

* 1868 – The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.

* 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies ; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

The University of California was founded in 1868, and by 1870 Toland Medical School began negotiating an affiliation with the new public university.

University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley ( 1868 )

Accordingly, the Organic Act, establishing the University of California, was signed into law by Governor Henry H. Haight ( Low's successor ) on March 23, 1868.

The city hosts Ca ' Foscari University of Venice founded in 1868, Iuav University of Venice founded in 1926 and Venice International University an international research center founded in 1995 located on the island of San Servolo.

* March 13 – Leland Stanford, Jr., in memory of whom Stanford University was founded ( b. 1868 ).

During the years of the Tokugawa shogunate ( 1601 – 1868 ), the rector of Edo ’ s Confucian Academy, the Shōhei-kō ( afterwards known at the Yushima Seidō ), was known by the honorific title Daigaku-no kami which, in the context of the Tokugawa hierarchy, can effectively be translated as " Head of the State University ".

A detail from the full-scale plaster model of the Saint Ambrose statue by Adolfo Wildt ( 1868 – 1931 ), standing under the arcades of the Main Courtyad of the University of Milan, Italy.

The Free University open in the wake of the revolution of 1868.

It was named for David L. Swain, governor of North Carolina from 1832 to 1835, and president of the University of North Carolina from 1835 to 1868.

* Honorary Doctorate at Lund University in 1868

According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the first settlers of Osceola, which included the families of Reverend James Query and Vinson Perry Davis, arrived in October 1868.

* John Thomas Ball ( 1815 – 1898 ), Irish barrister and politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Dublin University 1868 – 1875

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (,,, or ), August 7, 1868 – July 15, 1931 ) was an economist and statistician of Polish descent, who lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University ( Privatdozent, 1895 – 1897 ) and Berlin University ( 1901 – 1931 ).

Kapteyn was born in Barneveld to Gerrit J. and Elisabeth C. ( née Koomans ) Kapteyn, and went to the University of Utrecht to study mathematics and physics in 1868.

Kent attended secondary school at the Franklin Academy of Prattsburgh, New York before enrolling at Madison University ( today's Colgate University ), from which he was graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1868.