One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868, and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century.

The town returned two members of parliament from the 13th century until 1835, after which one MP was elected until the town was disenfranchised in 1868.

Sher Ali Khan, his third son, and proclaimed successor, failed to recapture Kabul from his older brother, Mohammad Afzal ( whose troops were led by his son, Abdur Rahman ) until 1868, after which Abdur Rahman retreated across the Amu Darya and bided his time.

The First Vatican Council was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864.

Isabella II of Spain took a more active role in government after coming of age, but she was immensely unpopular throughout her reign ( 1833 – 1868 ).

In 1862 he became Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and in 1868, after losing his seat at Merthyr Tydfil, but being re-elected for Renfrewshire, he was made Home Secretary by William Ewart Gladstone.

** Andrew Johnson, Democrat / National Union, was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act.

First was the foundation of Edo ( in 1603 ) to whole inland economical developments, second was the Meiji Restoration ( in 1868 ) to be the first non European power, third was after the defeat of World War II ( in 1945 ) when the island nation rose to become the world's second largest economy.

The fifth movement was added after the official premiere in 1868, and the work was published in 1869.

In 1868, after signing a treaty with the US government, the Navajo were allowed to return to their homeland.

His father Sigmund Bloomfield immigrated to the United States as a child in 1868 ; the original family name Blumenfeld was changed to Bloomfield after their arrival in the United States.

Field meetings to find interesting species of fungi are known as ' forays ', after the first such meeting organized by the Woolhope Naturalists ' Field Club in 1868 and entitled " a foray among the fungi.

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered a new element on August 18, 1868 while looking at the chromosphere of the Sun, and named it helium after the Greek word for the Sun, ( or ).

Four years after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government, through military incursions, officially annexed the kingdom and renamed it Ryukyu han.

However, shortly after Mikhail Bakunin and his followers ( called Collectivists while in the International ) joined in 1868, the First International became polarised into two camps, with Marx and Bakunin as their respective figureheads.

Because of this, the oligarchy that came into power after the " Meiji Restoration " of 1868 had a strong representation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as Ōkubo Toshimichi and Saigō Takamori taking up key government positions.

William Watt of Skaill, the local laird, began an amateur excavation of the site, but after uncovering four houses the work was abandoned in 1868.

In 1865, English archaeologist Frank Calvert excavated trial trenches in a field he had bought from a local farmer at Hisarlık, and in 1868, Heinrich Schliemann, wealthy German businessman and archaeologist, also began excavating in the area after a chance meeting with Calvert in Çanakkale.

# Arkansas ( April 6, 1868, after having rejected it on December 17, 1866 )

# Florida ( June 9, 1868, after having rejected it on December 6, 1866 )

# North Carolina ( July 4, 1868, after having rejected it on December 14, 1866 )

# Louisiana ( July 9, 1868, after having rejected it on February 6, 1867 )

# South Carolina ( July 9, 1868, after having rejected it on December 20, 1866 )

# Georgia ( July 21, 1868, after having rejected it on November 9, 1866 )

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

* " The Impeachment trial of President Johnson ", Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1868

* 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives.

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.

* 1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States ( b. 1791 )

In 1868, at the urging of Washington and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Carson journeyed to Washington D. C. where he escorted several Ute Chiefs to meet with the President of the United States to plead for assistance to their tribe.

* 1868 – The impeachment trial of U. S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.

* 1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.

The discovery of gold on the Tati River led President Pretorius in April 1868 to issue a proclamation extending his territories on the west and north so as to embrace the goldfield and portion of Bechuanaland.

Two Chief Justices, Salmon P. Chase and William Rehnquist, have presided over the trial in the Senate that follows an impeachment of the President – Chase in 1868 over the proceedings against President Andrew Johnson and Rehnquist in 1999 over the proceedings against President Bill Clinton.

The second president from Ohio, Grant was elected the 18th President of the United States in 1868, and was re-elected to the office in 1872 ; he served as President from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877.

* April 23 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States ( d. 1868 )

* July 1 – Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil ( b. 1868 )

* November 7 – John Nance Garner, U. S. Vice President ( b. 1868 )

In 1868, the Corazzieri mounted division was formed – initially as an escort of honour for the sovereign, and since 1946 for the President of the Republic.

Benjamin Wade | Benjamin F. Wade came within one vote of being the first president pro tempore to succeed to the President of the United States | presidency after the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.

When President Andrew Johnson, who had no vice president, was impeached and tried in 1868, Senate President pro tempore Benjamin Franklin Wade was next in line to the presidency.