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, Alcott met with publisher Thomas Niles, an admirer of Hospital Sketches.

* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, Irish Nationalist, journalist, and Father of Canadian confederation ( b. 1825 )

In 1868, Cassatt also studied with artist Thomas Couture, whose subjects were mostly romantic and urban.

** Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1868 )

Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur ( 1868 – 1938 ), a laundry laborer of English, French Huguenot and Jersey ancestry, and Anna Bell Johnson ( 1884 – 1958 ), who was of Swedish and Irish descent.

Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.

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

In 1868, a Fenian sympathizer assassinated Irish-Canadian politician Thomas D ' Arcy McGee in Ottawa for his condemnation of the raids.

Thomas D ' Arcy McGee in 1868

Dr. Thomas built a new house in 1868 and the original house was moved to its present site on Cass St. east of U. S. Route 131.

A. Thomas ; 1868 – 1869, J.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

In 1868, Thomas Holt's brother-in-law, Adolphus " Dolph " Moore, became partner in the mill and the operation was called Holt and Moore.

* James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan ( 1797 – 1868 ), Soldier and Commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava

In 1868 the village of Proctorville was built as a company town for Thomas E. Proctor's tannery.

Thomas D ' Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee, PC, ( April 13, 1825 – April 7, 1868 ) was an Irish Nationalist, Catholic spokesman, journalist, and a Father of Canadian Confederation.

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

Mr and Mrs Bancroft produced and starred in all the Thomas William Robertson comedies beginning in 1865: Society ( 1865 ), Ours ( 1866 ), Caste ( 1867 ), Play ( 1868 ), School ( 1869 ) and M. P.

Drawing by John Thomas Blight, 1868

* General Sir Thomas Brotherton, ( 1785 – 1868 ), died nearby at Upper Court and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.

Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and Sir Richard Hilles, the School is one of the original nine English Public Schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.

In 1868 he brought out a bibliography of the writings of Richard Baxter, and from that year until 1876 he was occupied in reproducing for private subscribers the “ Fuller Worthies Library ,” a series of thirty-nine volumes which included the works of Thomas Fuller, Sir John Davies, Fulke Greville, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Donne and Sir Philip Sidney.

This boat was St Thomas ' first chapel of ease ; it was donated by H. Ward, a local coal merchant, and used until it sank in 1868.