The general account of the travels of the two brothers was published by Arnaud in 1868 under the title of Douze ans dans la Haute Ethiopie.

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.

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

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.

Executive power is under the constitution of 1868, as amended, exercised by the government, by the Grand Duke and the Council of Government ( cabinet ), which consists of a prime minister and several other ministers.

was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate in the late 16th century, which ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

He presented this ' provisional hypothesis ' in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication and felt that it brought ' together a multitude of facts which are at present left disconnected by any efficient cause '.

In his 1859 The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin recalls seeing coloured drawings of zebra-donkey hybrids, and mentions " Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chesnut mare and male quagga ..." Darwin mentioned this particular hybrid again in 1868 in The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and provides a citation to the journal in which Lord Morton first described the breeding.

More detail was given in Darwin's 1868 book on The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, which tried to explain heredity through his hypothesis of pangenesis.

By the close of 1868, Mussorgsky had already started and abandoned two important opera projects — the antique, exotic, romantic tragedy Salammbô, written under the influence of Alexander Serov's Judith, and the contemporary, Russian, anti-romantic farce Marriage, influenced by Alexander Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest.

The Liberal Party ( the term was first used officially in 1868 but had been used colloquially for decades beforehand ) arose from a coalition of Whigs, free trade Tory followers of Robert Peel, and free trade Radicals, first created, tenuously under the Peelite Lord Aberdeen in 1852, and put together more permanently under the former Canningite Tory Lord Palmerston in 1859.

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

The city came under Russian rule after the citadel had been taken by a force under Colonel Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman in 1868.

Most of the production occurred before 1868 and much of the placer is now under the streets and buildings of Helena ( but even as late as the 1970s, when repairs were being made to a bank, a vein of placer gold was found under the bank's foundation ).

On November 2, 2009, the Lakota Nation filed a lawsuit against the United States, Arizona State, James Arthur Ray and Angel Valley Retreat Center site owners, to have Ray and the site owners arrested and punished under the Sioux Treaty of 1868 between the United States and the Lakota Nation, which states that “ if bad men among the whites or other people subject to the authority of the United States shall commit any wrong upon the person or the property of the Indians, the United States will (...) proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also reimburse the injured person for the loss sustained .”

A detail from the full-scale plaster model of the Saint Ambrose statue by Adolfo Wildt ( 1868 – 1931 ), standing under the arcades of the Main Courtyad of the University of Milan, Italy.

In 1868 he was invited by the German geographer August Petermann to participate in the 1869-1870 2nd German North Polar Expedition ( Germania under Carl Koldewey ).

Mefistofele premiered on 5 March 1868 at La Scala, Milan under the baton of the composer himself, despite his lack of experience and skill as a conductor.

In 1868, under the revised state constitution during the Reconstruction era, South Carolina districts were organized as counties.

In 1868, under the revised state constitution, South Carolina districts became counties, with officials elected by the resident voters rather than by state officials as done previously.

Most government buildings were quickly repaired ; however, the Capitol was largely under construction at the time and was not completed in its current form until 1868.

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.

* 1912 – Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer, member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole ( b. 1868 )

# South Carolina ( July 9, 1868, after having rejected it on December 20, 1866 )

In the next general election in 1868, the South Lancashire constituency had been broken-up by the Second Reform Act into two: South East Lancashire and South West Lancashire.

* South Carolina – July 9, 1868

In the 1868 US-Sioux Treaty of Fort Laramie the US mistakenly included all Ponca lands in present-day Nebraska in the Great Sioux Reservation of present-day South Dakota.

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.

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

In 1868, during Reconstruction, the legislature moved the capital to Atlanta — a city emerging as the symbol of the New South as surely as Milledgeville symbolized the Old South.

" In the 1868 South Carolina Constitution, the designation reverted back to county.

With little choice in the matter, South Carolina was readmitted to the Union in 1868.

* First Baptist Church ( 1868 ); erected at South Kingshighway in 1915.

The station opened on 10 May 1847 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as ' Carshalton ' on the new Croydon to Epsom railway and was renamed to ' Wallington ' in 1868 when the new Carshalton railway station opened in Carshalton village.

The Prince transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 2 November 1868 and, on 2 August 1869, to the Rifle Brigade, his father's own regiment, after which he conducted a long and distinguished career as an army officer, including service in South Africa, Canada in 1869, Ireland, Egypt in 1882, and in India from 1886 to 1890.

The first church was organized soon after the settlement, and the first parish, later known as " South Reading ", became the separate town of Wakefield in 1868.

But in the 1868 Zollverein elections the South Germans voted mainly for anti-Prussian parties.

Delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1868 ( alternate ), 1880 ; member of South Carolina state legislature ; U. S. Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1871-75.

* 1868 – Carolina Otero, a. k. a. La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan ( d. 1965 )

# North Carolina ( July 4, 1868, after having rejected it on December 14, 1866 )

* North Carolina – July 4, 1868

The Body of Liberties adopted in 1641 by the Massachusetts Bay colonists states, “ Every married woman shall be free from bodily correction or stripes by her husband, unless it be in his own defense from her assault .” In the United States, legal decisions in Mississippi ( 1824 ) and North Carolina ( 1868 and 1874 ) make reference to — and reject — an unnamed " old doctrine " or " ancient law " by which a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no wider than his thumb.

It was named for David L. Swain, governor of North Carolina from 1832 to 1835, and president of the University of North Carolina from 1835 to 1868.

It was founded by Robert Lee Stowe Sr. ( 1866 – 1963 ), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe ( 1868 – 1956 ), and Abel Caleb Lineberger ( 1859 – 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had founded Gaston County's second textile mill, the Woodlawn, or " Pinhook ," Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1852 ).

* Dr. Evan Benbow ( 1827 – 1894 ), physician, planter, delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868.

* David A. Jenkins ( 1822 – 1886 ), Republican politician and North Carolina State Treasurer, 1868 – 1876

In 1933, the North Carolina State Supreme Court heard Brewer v. Valk, an appeal from Forsyth County Superior Court, in which the Supreme Court upheld that the 1929 law violated both the U. S. Constitution's 14th Amendment and Article 1, Section 17 of the 1868 North Carolina State Constitution.

Chasevilles in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina ( which only lasted from 1868 – 1871 ), New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, were also named for him.

" Other barriers did not officially fall for decades in the states of Rhode Island ( 1842 ), North Carolina ( 1868 ), and New Hampshire ( 1877 ).

* The lower house of the General Assembly of North Carolina was also known as the House of Commons between 1760 and 1868.

He was president of the North Carolina Railroad in 1868 and of the Yadkin River Railroad.