Albert Edward and Alexandra visited Ireland in April 1868.

Queen Elizabeth frequently visited her scholars, although she never signed the statutes nor endowed her scholarships, and 1560 is now generally taken as the date that the school was " founded ", although legal separation from the Abbey was only achieved with the Public Schools Act 1868.

The Narashino area of Tsudanuma was used for cavalry maneuvers by the Imperial Guard and the early Imperial Japanese Army, and was visited by the Meiji Emperor early in the Meiji period ( 1868 – 1912 ).

He visited Italy in 1868 to examine Ravenna and other manuscripts, and on his return began the notes to the Acharnians, but they were left incomplete.

He visited the Alps almost every summer from 1856 onward, was a member of the very first mountain-climbing team to reach the top of the Weisshorn ( 1861 ), and lead of one of the early teams to reach the top of the Matterhorn ( 1868 ).

The island was visited in 1867 and 1868 by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall in his search for survivors of the lost Franklin Expedition.

In 1867 to 1868 Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ( Queen Victoria's second oldest son ) visited the Australian colonies.

American poet Henry Longfellow visited the school in 1868, Prince and Princess Christian on speech-day in 1870 and The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited in 1891 with their daughter, Princess May ( later Queen Mary ).

In 1868 Gray had a year's leave of absence and visited Darwin in England – the first time they had met since they started their correspondence.

The son of Queen Victoria, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh visited Clontarf in 1868 where he was shot in the back by an Irishman, Henry James O ' Farrell.

He finally returned to England in 1868, and in 1870 – 2 published a collection of sketches and descriptions of buildings which he had visited during his travels, under the title of The Auto-Biography of an Octogenarian Architect.

Brandis documented the sacred groves in Rajputana and Kans ( woodlands ) of Mysore, the Garo and Khasia hills which he visited in 1879, the Devarakadus of Coorg in 1868, and the hill ranges of the Salem district in the Madras Presidency in 1882, the Swami Shola on the Yelagiris, the sacred grove at Pudur on the Javadis and several sacred forests on the Shevaroys.

Born in Naples, Italy, he visited Spain in 1868 on a journey planned by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in order to recruit members for the First International.

In 1868 Dr. Engelmann and his wife again visited Europe for a year, the son being then in Berlin pursuing his medical studies.

The Count D ’ Eu and Princess Isabel visited Teresópolis in 1868 ; Emperor Dom Pedro II visited in 1870, and praised the village's beauty.

From 1866 to 1868, to recuperate from the strain of his war service, Meigs visited Europe, and from 1875 to 1876 made another visit to study the organization of European armies.

In 1868, workers attached to Napier's campaign against Tewodros II visited Adulis and exposed several buildings, including the foundations of a Byzantine-like church.

He visited Paris in 1868 and shortly afterwards married Cecilia de Madrazo, the daughter of Federico de Madrazo, who would become curator of the Prado Museum in Madrid.

His early writings were devoted to classical antiquity, his knowledge drawn partly from visits to the actual Greek sites in 1868.

The towns contains a notable museum of contemporary art, the Musée Albert-André, founded in 1868 as well as an archaeological museum with a collection of artifacts found mainly in nearby Roman sites.

* 1868 – Nikolaos Levidis, Greek target shooter

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 ).

Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends ( 1868 ) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaPhidias, or The Great Pheidias ( in Ancient Greek, ; circa 480 – 430 BC ), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias ' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

The Philosophie der Griechen has been translated into English by S. F. Alleyne ( 2 vols, 1881 ) in sections: S. F. Alleyne, History of Greek Philosophy to the time of Socrates ( 1881 ); O. J. Reichel, Socrates and the Socratic Schools ( 1868 ; 2nd ed.

The Greek community declined in late 19th century as from 1 / 1 / 1868 the privileges of the Livorno port ceased.

Demetrius Vikelas continued to gain favour in Greece — in 1868 he published a 30-page statistical article on the Kingdom of Greece following a conference at the Royal Statistical Society ; in 1870 he founded a school for Greek children living in England.

Historical manuscripts such as the 6th century Codex Purpureus Beratinus, discovered in 1868, and the Codex Aureus, a 9th century Greek language manuscript have revealed much about the history of the region and that Berat had a reputation for producing manuscripts ; 76 of the 100 codes protected in the National Archives of Albania are from Berat, indicating its historical importance.

It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 7, 1868, and named after Hera, queen and fifth in power of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology.

It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 13, 1868, and named after one of the many Clymenes in Greek mythology.

It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 16, 1868, and named after Artemis, The goddess of the hunt, moon, and crossways in Greek Mythology.

It was discovered by J. C. Watson on October 10, 1868, and named after Dione, a Titaness in Greek mythology who was sometimes said to have been the mother of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

Designed by Llandaff architect John Prichard on a Greek Cross plan, the latter was financed totally by the third Marquess of Bute, in spite of his conversion to Catholicism in 1868.

They include an Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament ( 1854 ), a new edition of T. H. Horne's Introduction ( 1860 ), and Canon Muratorianus: Earliest Catalogue of Books of the New Testament ( 1868 ).

The white rhinoceros ' generic name, Ceratotherium, given by the zoologist John Edward Gray in 1868, is derived from the Greek terms keras ( κερας ) " horn " and therion ( θηριον ) " beast ".

After spending some time in Constantinople in 1868 acquainting himself with Old Slavonic literature, he returned to Ohrid where he advocated the substitution of Greek with Bulgarian in the town's schools and churches.

The ruins at Qohaito were first located in 1868, but at the time erroneously identified as a " Greek depot ".

Nikolaos Levidis (), born August 25, 1868, date of death unknown ) was a Greek shooter in the 1896 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Greek Orthodox church at Cape Jason ( 1868 ).

He immigrated to the United States as a young man but remained obscure until 1868, when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous.

There were at least two reasons for the speed of Japan's modernization: the employment of more than 3, 000 foreign experts ( called o-yatoi gaikokujin or ' hired foreigners ') in a variety of specialist fields such as teaching English, science, engineering, the army and navy, among others ; and the dispatch of many Japanese students overseas to Europe and America, based on the fifth and last article of the Charter Oath of 1868: ' Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundations of Imperial rule.

During the changes brought by Japan opening up to the outside world at the beginning of the Meiji era ( 1868 – 1912 ), the samurai lost their position.

Traffic lights were first installed in 1868 in London, United Kingdom, and are today used in almost every city of the world.

In 1868, Jhering accepted the chair of Roman Law at Vienna, where his lecture-room was crowded, not only with regular students but with men of all professions and even of the highest ranks in the official world.

* Birthplace of Jimmy Elliott, ( 1838-1883 ) Irish-American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1865 to 1868.

The Empire of Japan, officially the Empire of Great Japan or simply Great Japan ( Dai Nippon ), was an empire and world power that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of Japan on 3 May 1947.

It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and purported to list all the stamps of the world, with prices for each.

From his " tour round the world " Kean returned in 1866 in broken health, and died in London on 22 January 1868 at the age of 57.

1868 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

The eldest daughter, Selene Harding ( 1846 – 1892 ), married Jackson County, TN resident General William Hicks Jackson on December 15, 1868 after the Civil War ended, and they moved to Belle Meade where Red Jackson co-managed the business affairs of the Belle Meade Estate with his new father-in-law, General William Giles Harding ; the two men expanded the estate into a world class thoroughbred horse farm.

He is popularly regarded as the winner of the first official cycle race in the world in 1868 at St-Cloud, Paris, although there appears to be no verifiable contemporary evidence for this.

The Kano family is dominated the painting world from the end of the Muromachi period ( 1333 – 1568 ) to the end of the Edo period ( 1600 – 1868 ).

In 1868, Joseph Malins returned to his native England and established a Birmingham lodge, from which IOGT spread to Europe and the rest of the world.

Beginning Fall Term 1868 / 69, Wagner therefore took over the Chair of the Cameralistic subjects ( roughly, state management ) at the Badensian University of Freiburg im Breisgau, and very soon afterwards, in 1870, the Chair of Staatswissenschaften at the University of Berlin, by that time not only the premier university in Germany but probably in the world.

The Black Hills are considered by the Lakota to be the axis mundi, or center of the world, and the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie granted the Indians ownership of the mountain range.

In 1868 silver was discovered, and from 1870 to 1884 the mine at Silver Islet was the richest silver mine in the world.