* June 29 – Georges Lacombe, French artist ( b. 1868 )

Georges Lacombe ( 18 June 1868 – 29 June 1916 ) was a French sculptor and painter.

* England under the House of Hanover ( 1848, 2 vols., several editions, reproduced in 1868 as Caricature History of the Georges )

* Georges Biet, French architect ( born 1868 )

Father Belenger was the first priest in the St. Georges Bay area from 1850 to 1868.

* Georges Lacombe ( painter ) ( 1868 – 1916 ), French sculptor and painter

During his trip to the USA in 1867 – 1868 the 23-year-old Belgian Georges Nagelmackers was impressed by the Pullman night trains.

In 1868, before the advent of powered aircraft, English inventor Matthew Piers Watt Boulton patented the first aileron-type device for lateral control via ' flexed ' wings.

Although Boulton had described and patented ailerons in 1868, no one had actually built them until Esnault-Pelterie ’ s glider, almost 40 years later.

The hot-blast design, also known as a " tubular lantern " due to the round metal tubes used in its construction, was invented by John Irwin and patented on January 12, 1868.

The tunnelling shield for driving the Tower Subway, while designed by Greathead, was inspired by Barlow's ideas for a circular tunnelling shield which he had patented in 1864 and 1868.

The first of these conversions was patented on September 15, 1868 by Colt engineer, F. Alexander Thuer as patent number 82258.

As well, also in 1868, Albert Kletzker of St Louis, MO patented a device to staple paper.

The first union suit was patented in 1868 as " emancipation union under flannel ".

The first flip book appeared in September, 1868, when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name kineograph (" moving picture ").

Steam-molding, patented in 1868, helped create a curvaceous contour.

The fourth was the key-wheel machine first patented by John Pratt on August 11, 1868.

This apparatus was reinvented several times, by C. F. Varley, that patented a high power version in 1860, by Lord Kelvin ( the " replenisher ") 1868, and by A. D. Moore ( the " dirod "), more recently.

Bigelow was elected a member of the Boston Historical Society in April 1864, and in 1869 presented to that society six large volumes entitled Inventions of Erastus Brigham Bigelow patented in England from 1837 to 1868 in which were gathered the printed specifications of eighteen patents granted to him in England.

The original Galand revolver was a double-action, open frame ( no strap across the top of the cylinder ) revolver patented in 1868.

The Lumière Brothers ' Autochrome process was based on one of the several color photography methods patented by du Hauron in 1868.

In 1868 he patented his ideas and in 1869 he published them in Les couleurs en photographie, solution du problème.

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

Janssen is jointly credited with detecting the element along with Norman Lockyer during the solar eclipse of 1868, and Lockyer was the first to propose that the line was due to a new element, which he named.

During the Meiji period ( 1868 – 1912 ), leaders inaugurated a new Western-based education system for all young people, sent thousands of students to the United States and Europe, and hired more than 3, 000 Westerners to teach modern science, mathematics, technology, and foreign languages in Japan ( Oyatoi gaikokujin ).

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 ).

Johnson's new chart of national emblems, published c. 1868.

Implementation of these new rights was slow to come ; in the 1868 election, the black vote counted in only sixteen of the thirty-seven states.

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

* 1868 — Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer discover an unidentified yellow line in solar prominence spectra and suggest it comes from a new element which they name " helium "

In 1868 he became editor of The Overland Monthly, another new literary magazine, but this one more in tune with the pioneering spirit of excitement in California.

This instrument was rebuilt on a new gallery in the North Transept by William Hill & Son of London in 1868, to a specification of forty stops spread over four manuals and pedals, although the Solo department, which would have brought the total to well over forty, was not completed.

On October 8, 1868, the area was again organized into a county, but as Covington County had been renamed " Jones County " the same year ( a change that lasted only a few months ), the new county was named Sanford, in honor of H. C. Sanford of Cherokee County.

It was named for the County of origin by chemist and mineralogist Frederick Augustus Genth who differentiated it from the known gold telluride mineral sylvanite, and formally reported it as a new gold mineral in 1868.

« Beaux-Arts histoire », Paris, 2002 ( ISBN 2-84056-087-9 ), p. 481-521 ( new edition of Overbeck's Antiquen Schiftquellen, 1868 ).

Imperial restoration occurred the next year on January 3rd 1868 with the formation of the new government.

The Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown with the fall of Edo in the summer of 1868, and a new era called Meiji, meaning " enlightened rule ", proclaimed.

The first reform was the promulgation of the Five Charter Oath in 1868, a general statement of the aims of the Meiji leaders to boost morale and win financial support for the new government.

While at first a booming mining town with 5, 000 inhabitants, once the gold was mined out Auburn's population dwindled, and county citizens eventually voted in 1868 to make Baker City, incorporated in 1874, the new county seat.

The Metropolitan western extension opened in 1868 from a new station at Paddington to South Kensington.

Transport links expanded further with new railway lines to Croydon ( Wimbledon and Croydon Railway, opened in 1855 ) and Tooting ( Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon Railway, opened in 1868 ).

During Reconstruction, the new authorities in charge of the government decided to move the county seat of Marengo from its central location in Linden to Demopolis by an act approved on December 4, 1868.

The post office, established at the original site in 1868 was moved to the new site in 1951.

Another town in Illinois already had been named Clarksville ( without the " e ") so when the new town's post office was established on February 7, 1868, it was called Amicus.

1868 saw a new four-room school house completed at the southwest corner of S. Benton and Winnebago Streets.

In the spring of 1868, Howard Mitchell started a subscription school in the new building.