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.

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.

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.

But towards the end of 1868 Sher Ali's return, and a general rising in his favour, resulted in Abdur Rahman and Azam Khan's defeat at Tinah Khan on January 3, 1869.

Michaux ' son on velocipede 1868

The 1868 Hayward earthquake did occur on the southern segment of the Hayward Fault in the vicinity of today's city of Hayward ( hence, how the fault got its name ).

After initially being buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Ward's remains were removed to the United States on May 20, 1868.

Ebor Post Office opened on 2 March 1868, closed in in 1869 and reopened in 1910.

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.

He died at the age of 76 from pneumonia at his country house at Passy on Friday, 13 November 1868.

Here, he had met an American, Louise Burguelew Ennis, the daughter of a wholesale stationer ; entering a relationship, they were married in Manhattan on 25 November 1868.

The first evidence of helium was observed on August 18, 1868 as a bright yellow line with a wavelength of 587. 49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun.

Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).

Carson died a month later at age 58 on May 23, 1868, in the presence of Dr. Tilton.

This general view of the unexcavated Buddhist stupa near Baramulla, with two figures standing on the summit, and another at the base with measuring scales, was taken by John Burke in 1868.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

The highest recorded temperature was on July 6, 2012, and the lowest recorded temperature was on February 2, 1868.

Queen Rasoherina accepted, first wedding Rainivoninahitriniony, then later deposing him and wedding his brother, Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony ( 1864 – 95 ), who would go on to marry Queen Ranavalona II ( 1868 – 83 ) and Queen Ranavalona III ( 1883 – 97 ) in succession.

* 1868 – Decoration Day ( the predecessor of the modern " Memorial Day ") is observed in the United States for the first time ( By " Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic " John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5 ).

In 1868, Piula Theological College was established in Lufilufi on the north coast of Upolu island in Samoa and serves as the main headquarters of the Methodist church in the country.

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, owner of the sugar refinery La Demajagua near Manzanillo, freed his slaves on 10 October 1868.

The first cavalry charge using machetes as the primary weapon was carried out on 4 November 1868 by Máximo Gómez, a sergeant born in the Dominican Republic, who later became the General in Chief of the Cuban army.

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 ).

This was brought about by Palmerston's death in 1865 and Russell's retirement in 1868.

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

The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera, but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

Rabodo, crowned queen on May 13, 1863 under the throne name of Rasoherina, reigned until her death on April 1, 1868.

After the death of his father in 1868, Aleksandr Lyapunov was educated by his uncle R. M. Sechenov, brother of the physiologist Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov.

This is often incorrectly believed to be prohibited in the Geneva Conventions, but it significantly predates those conventions, and is in fact a continuance of the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, which banned exploding projectiles of less than 400 grams, as well as weapons designed to aggravate injured soldiers or make their death inevitable.

Thaddeus Stevens, the noted Radical Republican, served Lancaster County in the United States House of Representatives from 1849 – 1853 and from 1859 until his death in 1868.

Examples for the romantic heroization of Charles XII in several genres are Esaias Tegnér's song Kung Karl, den unge hjälte ( 1818 ), Johan Peter Molin's statue in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården ( unveiled on 30 November 1868, the 150th anniversary of Charles ' death ) and Gustaf Cederström's painting Karl XII: s likfärd (" Funeral procession of Charles XII ", 1878 ).

He was employed as a station master and Manager of the Van Railway at Caersws railway station from 1868 until his death in 1887.

Nine women were burned to death for witchcraft in the town in 1659, and two centuries later in 1868, Dumfries was the site of Scotland's last public hanging.

The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 ended public executions, requiring that criminals be put to death in private, after which executions were performed inside the castle.

He was appointed to the Council of India again in 1868, and continued to serve upon it until his death.

Brooke ruled Sarawak until his death in 1868, following three strokes over a period of ten years.

Charles, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG ( Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke ; 3 June 1829 – 17 May 1917 ), born Charles Anthoni Johnson, ruled as the head of state of Sarawak from 3 August 1868 until his death.

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 archbishop of Freiburg resisted, and, on his death in April 1868, the see remained vacant.

von Tempsky's death in fighting against Titokowaru at Te Ngutu o te Manu, 1868 by Kennett Watkins

He bought the Manchester Evening News from its founder Mitchell Henry in 1868 and was owner, then co-owner, until his death.

His edition of the celebrated Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209, completed in 1838, but not published ( ostensibly the ground of inaccuracies ) till four years after his death ( 1858 ), is the least satisfactory of his labours and was superseded by the edition of Vercellone and Cozza ( 1868 ), which itself leaves much to be desired.

He became 3rd Viscount Melville on his father's death in 1851, but continued his military career, being raised to the rank of general in 1868.

The war featured a succession of brutalities by the Mexican authorities, including a massacre in 1868, in which the Army burned 150 Yaqui to death inside a church.

In 1868, Joseph married Harriet's cousin, Florence, and had further children, the oldest of whom, Neville, would become Prime Minister in the year of Austen's death.

In 1868 upon the death of his father, Cecil was elevated to the House of Lords.