So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

In 1868, however, a truce was called between the companies, and the partnership of Darling, Brown & Sharpe was formed.

The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

* 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 )

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

In 1868, Alcott met with publisher Thomas Niles, an admirer of Hospital Sketches.

* 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 )

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.

In 1868 there were about 15, 000 Ainu in Hokkaido, 2000 in Sakhalin, and around 100 in the Kurile islands.

The turning point for Ainu culture was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

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

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

Cinchona plants were introduced in 1868 by Charles Elliot ( 1863 – 1870 ) with a view to exporting quinine but the experiment was abandoned by his successor Governor C. G. E. Patey ( 1870 – 1873 ), who also embarked on a programme of reducing the civil establishment.

In 1868, a town was founded by William Scott and Colonel E. G. Sebree of Trenton, Kentucky.

Initially, Gautrot advertised the range of the sarrusophone to high F as well, but later fingering charts indicated a range to high G. Sometime after 1868, Gautrot also released a fingering chart indicating fingerings higher still up to a top B-flat, giving a range of three full octaves.

Rossburg was platted by John G. Ross in 1868.

See G. Westermayer, Jacobus Balde, sein Leben und seine Werke ( 1868 ); J. Bach, Jakob Balde ( Freiburg, 1904 ).

G. Martin Murphy ( 2004 ) " Badeley, Edward Lowth ( 1803 / 4 – 1868 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 July 2007

See B. Fortlage, F. Rückert und seine Werke ( 1867 ); C. Beyer, Friedrich Rückert, ein biographisches Denkmal ( 1868 ), Neue Mitteilungen über Rückert ( 1873 ), and Nachgelassene Gedichte Rückerts und neue Beiträge zu dessen Leben und Schriften ( 1877 ); R. Boxberger, Rückert-Studien ( 1878 ); P. de Lagarde, Erinnerungen an F. Rückert ( 1886 ); F. Muncker, Friedrich Rückert ( 1890 ); G. Voigt, Rückerts Gedankenlyrik ( 1891 ).

He edited the plays of Shakespeare published in the " Clarendon Press " series ( 1868 – 97 ), also with W. G. Clark the " Cambridge " Shakespeare ( 1863 – 1866 ; 2nd ed.

See monographs by J. G. Dahler, C. L. Cuvier, F. J. Stiévenart ( all 1830 ), L. Spach ( 1868 ), Ch.

See Charles Collé, Journal ( 1868 ); the Memoirs of St Simon, Madame de Genlis, the duchesse d ' Abrantes and Mme de Levis ; G Strenger, " La Société de la marquise de Montesson ," in the Nouvelle revue ( 1902 ); J Turquan, Madame de Montesson douairière d ' Orléans ( Paris, 1904 ); and G. Capon and R Yves-Plessis, Les Théâtres clandestins du xviii ' siècle ( 1904 ).

** G. d ' Heilly, Madame de Girardin, sa vie et ses œuvres ( 1868 )

* 1868 / 69 G. C. Hill

Bentham's first publication was his Catalogue des plantes indigènes des Pyrénées et du Bas Languedoc ( Paris 1826 ), the result of a careful exploration of the Pyrenees in company with G. A. Walker Arnott ( 1799 – 1868 ), afterwards professor of botany in the University of Glasgow.

In 1868, engineer John G Grönvall founded a mechanical workshop and foundry in Skövde, Sweden.

Another is the precision engineering works and foundry of A & G Price, established 1868, who built 123 steam locomotives for New Zealand Railways Department.

The two most popular English-language newspapers were The Hindu established by G. Subramania Iyer in 1878, and The Mail, established as the Madras Times by the Gantz family in 1868.

In 1882 he wrote a short story for Le Gaulois entitled " The Englishman of Étretat " ( L ' Anglais d ' Étretat ), based on encounters in 1868, as a house guest of G. E. J. Powell, with the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he had helped save from drowning.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

), ( John Gould ( 1804 – 1881 ), Albert C. L. G. Günther ( 1830 – 1914 ), Frank Finn ( 1868 – 1932 ), Charles McFarlane Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Stanley Wells Kemp ( 1882 – 1945 ), James Wood-Mason ( 1846 – 1893 ), Reginald Innes Pocock ( 1863 – 1947 ), Richard Bowdler Sharpe ( 1847 – 1909 ), Malcolm A. Smith ( 1875 – 1958 ) and Nathaniel Wallich ( 1786 – 1854 ).

Before the pre-Ashes Test-playing tour to Australia in 1876 – 77, Lillywhite also joined tours to North America in 1868 in a team led by Edgar Willsher, to Australia in 1873 – 74 in a team led by W. G.

The editors of DeBow's Review were: from Jan. 1846 to Feb. 1867, J. D. B. DeBow ; from April 1867 to Feb. 1868, R. G. Barnwell and E. Q.

On March 27 or 28, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln met at City Point with Generals Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman along with Admiral David Porter aboard the River Queen, as depicted by G. P. A Healy's 1868 painting The Peacemakers.

The Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Princes Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England was built between 1868 and 1869 by G. E. Street for Robert Horsfall.