* 1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.

* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

By the time Sher Ali had established control in Kabul in 1868, he found the British ready to support his regime with arms and funds, but nothing more.

Tewodros ' diplomatic efforts, however, ended disastrously with the British expedition of 1868 which concluded with his death.

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.

His heirs, Earls of Abercorn, heirs male of the Hamilton family from 1651, became Marquesses of Abercorn in 1790, and Dukes of Abercorn in 1868 ; the 2nd Duke of Abercorn ( b. 1838 ) being a prominent Unionist politician and chairman of the British South Africa Company.

In order to protect his people, Moshoeshoe appealed to the British for assistance, and in March 1868 the land was placed under British protection and the Boer were ordered to leave.

This attack, and the Qatari counterattack, prompted the British political agent, Colonel Lewis Pelly, to impose a settlement in 1868.

In 1868, British astronomer William Huggins was the first to determine the velocity of a star moving away from the Earth by this method.

** Arthur Gore, British tennis player ( b. 1868 )

* April 28 – Duncan Forbes, British linguist ( d. 1868 )

In 1868, the British annexed Basutoland in the Drakensberg Mountains following an appeal from Moshesh, the leader of a mixed group of African refugees from the Zulu wars, who sought British protection against the Boers.

Zula was the place where the British expedition of 1867 – 1868 against Tewodros disembarked, Annesley Bay affording safe and ample anchorage for the largest ocean-going vessels.

Enacted after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, it provided for a form of mixed constitutional and absolute monarchy, based jointly on the Prussian and British models.

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

The UK Telegraph Act 1868 for example empowered the Postmaster General to " acquire, maintain and work electric telegraphs " and foreshadowed the 1870 nationalisation of competing British telegraph companies.

* William Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden ( 1868 – 1928 ), known as Frederick Smith, officer in the British Army

Caricature of Spurgeon from Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868 – 1914 ) | Vanity fair ( 1870 )

Gladstone was named in honor of William Ewart Gladstone, who served as British Prime Minister several times between 1868 and 1894.

* Norman Douglas ( 1868 – 1952 ), British writer

James, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB ( born James Brooke ; 29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868 ) was a British adventurer whose exploits in areas of the British Empire led to him becoming the first White Rajah of Sarawak.

The company relinquished its ownership of Rupert's Land under the Rupert's Land Act 1868, enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

There was an Ayrshire constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1868, when the constituency was divided into Ayrshire North and Ayrshire South.

In 1868 he had to give up his seat in Parliament, despite having the support of both Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone.

Eldest son Charles Barry ( junior ) ( 1823 – 1900 ) designed Dulwich College and park in south London and rebuilt Burlington House ( home of the Royal Academy ) in central London's Piccadilly ; Edward Middleton Barry ( 1830 – 1880 ) completed the Parliament buildings and designed the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden ; Godfrey Walter Barry ( 1834 – 1868 ) became a surveyor ; Sir John Wolfe-Barry ( 1836 – 1918 ) was the engineer for Tower Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge.

Previously he had sat in Parliament as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Reigate from February to September 1858 ; he was again MP for Frome, from 1865 to 1868.

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

On December 10, 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight.

In 1868, Playfair was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, being sworn of the Privy Council and made Postmaster General in Gladstone's government in 1873.

John Platt was elected in 1865 to become Member of Parliament for Oldham, and was re-elected in 1868 ; he remained in office until his death in 1872.

The British Parliament passed an act in 1868 which authorised all perpetual curates to use the title " vicar ".

Watkin served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Great Yarmouth ( 1857 – 1858 ) Stockport ( 1864 – 1868 ) and later that of Hythe in Kent ( 1874 – 1895 ).

" From 1868 to 1874 he was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Penryn and Falmouth.

* Thomas Cape M. B. E ( 1868 – 1947 )-Labour politician and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Workington from 1918 to 1945.

* Parliament House ( 1868 ), Brisbane, Australia.

To enter Parliament was one of his ambitions, and in 1868 he unsuccessfully contested Mid-Somerset.

* William Edwin Price ( 1841 – 1886 ), British Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury, 1868 – 1880

The Public Schools Act 1868 was enacted by the British Parliament to reform and regulate nine of the leading English boys ' schools.

Category: United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1868

The federal government is inconsistent in the use of the two variants: it often uses the 1939 variant, but in some cases, such as on the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill and the badge of the Royal 22 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment, it uses the 1868 variant.

* David Jones ( MP ) ( 1810 – 1869 ), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire, 1852 – 1868

Built in 1868 and now owned by Craigavon Borough CouncilLurgan is part of the Upper Bann constituency for the purpose of elections to the UK Parliament at Westminster.

* James Banks Stanhope ( 1821 – 1904 ), Member of Parliament for North Lincolnshire, 1852 – 1868

His fourth son, Edgar Alfred Bowring, was a Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1868 to 1874.