1868

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تحويل 1-1-1868م الى هجري  ^{(وصلة خارجية)}  | تحويل 31-12-1868م الى هجري  ^{(وصلة خارجية)}  | ابحث في الموسوعة عن مواضيع متعلقة بسنة 1868

الألفية:	الألفية 2
القرون:	القرن 18 - القرن 19 - القرن 20
العقود:	عقد 1830  عقد 1840  عقد 1850  - عقد 1860 -  عقد 1870  عقد 1880  عقد 1890
السنوات:	1865 1866 1867 - 1868 - 1869 1870 1871

1868 في موضوعات:

الإنسانيات

الآثار – العمارة – الفن – الأدب (الشعر) – الموسيقى

حسب البلد

مصر – سوريا - إيران – الصين - فرنسا – ألمانيا – الدولة العثمانية – إيطاليا - اسبانيا - المغرب– روسيا - اليابان – البرازيل - الهند - المملكة المتحدة – الولايات المتحدة – إندونسيا

موضوعات أخرى

السكك الحديدية – العلوم – الرياضة

قوائم الزعماء

الدول ذات السيادة – زعماء الدول – حكام الأقاليم – الزعماء الدينيون

تصنيفا المواليد والوفيات

المواليد – الوفيات

تصنيفا التأسيسات والانحلالات

التأسيسات – الانحلالات

تصنيف الأعمال

الأعمال

1868 في التقاويم الأخرى

التقويم الگريگوري	1868 MDCCCLXVIII
آب أوربه كونديتا	2621
التقويم الأرمني	1317 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԷ
التقويم الآشوري	6618
التقويم البهائي	24–25
التقويم البنغالي	1275
التقويم الأمازيغي	2818
سنة العهد البريطاني	31 Vict. 1 – 32 Vict. 1
التقويم البوذي	2412
التقويم البورمي	1230
التقويم البيزنطي	7376–7377
التقويم الصيني	丁卯年 (النار الأرنب) 4564 أو 4504     — إلى — 戊辰年 (التراب التنين) 4565 أو 4505
التقويم القبطي	1584–1585
التقويم الديسكوردي	3034
التقويم الإثيوپي	1860–1861
التقويم العبري	5628–5629
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	1924–1925
- شاكا سامڤات	1790–1791
- كالي يوگا	4969–4970
تقويم الهولوسين	11868
تقويم الإگبو	868–869
التقويم الإيراني	1246–1247
التقويم الهجري	1284–1285
التقويم الياباني	Keiō 4 / Meiji 1 (明治元年)
تقويم جوچى	N/A
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 12 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4201
تقويم مينگوو	44 قبل جمهورية الصين 民前44年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2411

سنة 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) كانت سنة كبيسة تبدأ يوم الأربعاء (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1868 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 868 في الألفية 2، السنة 68 في القرن 19، والسنة 9 في عقد 1860 بين 1583 و 1929 ومع فارق 1868 is 12 يوم عن التقويم اليوليوسي، والذين ظلوا مستخدمين حتى التحول الكامل إلى التقويم الگريگوري في 1929.

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 أحداث

 January–March

January 3: Emperor Meiji.

• 2 يناير – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries.
• January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the Meiji Restoration, his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War.
• January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside.
• January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock.
• 9 يناير – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship Hougoumont in Western Australia, after an 89-day voyage from England. There are 62 Fenians among the transportees.
• January 10 – Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares the emperor's declaration "illegal", and prepares to attack Kyoto.
• January 27–31 – Battle of Toba–Fushimi: forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and the allied pro-Imperial forces of the Chōshū, Satsuma and Tosa Domains clash near Fushimi, Kyoto, ending in a decisive victory for the Imperial forces (although in the January 28 naval Battle of Awa, the Shogunate is victorious against Satsuma).
• فبراير – Foreign ministers meeting in Hyōgo are persuaded to recognise the restored Emperor Meiji of Japan, with promises that harbours will be open in accordance with international treaties.
• February 13 – The British War Office sanctions the formation of what becomes the Army Post Office Corps.
• February 16 – In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).
• February 19 – In the Passage of Humaitá, a Brazilian naval force succeeds in dashing past a Paraguayan fortress on the River Paraguay, considered by some the turning point in the Paraguayan War.
• February 24
  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: Three days after his action to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the United States House of Representatives votes 126-47 in favor of a resolution to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, the first of two Presidents to be impeached by the full House. Johnson is later acquitted by the United States Senate.
  • The first parade to have floats takes place at Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
• March – French geologist Louis Lartet discovers the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon, the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens), at Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.
• March 12
  • Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh, is shot in the back in Sydney, Australia, at a fundraising event for the Sydney Sailors Home, by Irishman Henry James O'Farrell. The prince survives and quickly recovers; O'Farrell is executed on April 21, despite attempts by the prince to gain clemency for him.
  • Basutoland is proclaimed a British Protectorate.
• March 23 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California, when the Organic Act is signed into California law.
• March 24 – The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed, in New York City.
• March 27 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
• March – The first transnational women's organization, Association internationale des femmes, is founded.

 April–June

• April 1 – The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute is established in Hampton, Virginia.
• April 7 – The Charter Oath, drawn up by his councilors, is promulgated at the enthronement of the Emperor Meiji of Japan, promising deliberative assemblies and an end to feudalism.
• April 9 – Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia massacres at least 197 of his own people at Magdala. These are prisoners incarcerated, for the most part, for very trivial offenses, and are killed for requesting bread and water.
• April 9–13 – Battle of Magdala: A British-Indian task force under Robert Napier inflicts 700 deaths and a crushing defeat on the army of Emperor Tewodros II; the British and Indians suffer 30 wounded, two of whom die subsequently. Tewodros commits suicide and Magdala is captured, ending the British Expedition to Abyssinia.
• April 11 – July – Fall of Edo: The Japanese city surrenders to Emperor Meiji. Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu submits to the Emperor.
• April 29 – General William Tecumseh Sherman brokers the Treaty of Fort Laramie, between the federal government of the United States and the Plains Indians.
• May 10–14 – Boshin War – Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, Japan: Forces of the Emperor Meiji resist the retreating troops of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• May 16, May 26 – President Andrew Johnson is twice acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
• May 26 – Fenian bomber Michael Barrett becomes the last person publicly hanged in the United Kingdom.
• May 29 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, thus ending public hanging.
• May 30 – Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time (it was proclaimed on May 5 by General John A. Logan).
• May 31
  • Thomas Spence declares himself president of the Republic of Manitobah in Canada; he soon alienates the locals.
  • The first popular bicycle race is held at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris.
• June – Tītokowaru's War breaks out in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island between the Ngāti Ruanui Māori tribe and the New Zealand Government.
• June 1 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
• June 2 – The first Trades Union Congress is held in Manchester, England.
• June 10 – Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia is assassinated in Košutnjak, Belgrade.
• June 20 – Fort Fred Steele is established to protect what is at this time the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway, near modern-day Sinclair, Wyoming.

 July–September

July 25: Wyoming Territory.

• July 1 – The cable-operated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in Manhattan becomes the first elevated railway in the United States.
• July 4 – Battle of Ueno: Imperial Japanese troops defeat the Shōgitai (elite forces remaining loyal to the shōgun).
• July 5 – Preacher William Booth establishes the Christian Mission, predecessor of The Salvation Army, in the East End of London.
• July 9 – The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• July 18 – The Navajo people begin their long march home.
• July 25 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
• July 25 – Paraguayan War: The Allies, in an amphibious operation, capture the fortress of Humaitá.
• July 27 – The United States Expatriation Act ("An Act concerning the Rights of American Citizens in foreign States") is adopted.
• July 28 – The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted, including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, legally, if not actually, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and equal protection, and all persons in the United States due process of law.
• August 13 – The 8.5–9.0 M_w Arica earthquake strikes southern Peru, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin-wide tsunami, that affects Hawaii and New Zealand.
• August 18 – The element later named as helium is first detected in the spectrum of the Sun's chromosphere, by French astronomer Jules Janssen, during a total eclipse in Guntur, British India, but is assumed to be sodium.
• August 20 – Abergele rail disaster in Wales: An Irish Mail passenger train collides with 4 cargo trucks loaded with paraffin oil (more akin to modern kerosine); 33 are killed (the first major train disaster in Britain).
• August 22 – The Yangzhou riot in China targets a station of the China Inland Mission, and nearly leads to war between Britain and China.
• September – Glorious Revolution: Queen Isabella II of Spain is effectively deposed and sent into exile; she formally abdicates on June 25, 1870.
• September 3 – Emperor Meiji of Japan announces that the name of the city of Edo is to be changed to Tokyo.
• September 7 – Tītokowaru's War: Māori leader Titokowaru defeats a New Zealand military force at Te Ngutu o Te Manu, North Island.
• September 18 – The University of the South holds its first convocation in Sewanee, Tennessee.
• September 23 – Grito de Lares: Rebels (some 400–600 led by Ramón Emeterio Betances) in the town of Lares declare Puerto Rico independent; the local militia easily defeats them a week later.
• September 24 – Croatian–Hungarian Settlement (كرواتية: Hrvatsko-ugarska nagodba, مجرية: Horvát–magyar kiegyezés, ألمانية: Kroatisch-Ungarischer Ausgleich) is concluded, governing Croatia's political status in the Hungarian-ruled part of Austria-Hungary until 1918.

 October–December

• October 1 – Chulalongkorn starts to rule in Siam.
• October 6 – The City of New York grants Mount Sinai Hospital a 99-year lease for a property on Lexington Avenue and 66th Street, for the sum of $1.00.
• October 10 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes declares a revolt against Spanish rule in Cuba, in an event known as El Grito de Yara, initiating a war that lasts ten years (Cuba ultimately loses the war at a cost of 400,000 lives and widespread destruction).
• October 20
  • English astronomer Norman Lockyer observes and names the D₃ Fraunhofer line in the solar spectrum, and concludes that it is caused by a hitherto unidentified element, which he later names helium.
  • Pedro Figueredo creates the Cuban national anthem, El Himno de Bayamo.
• October 23 – The current Japanese era name is changed to the Meiji period. The 265-year-long Edo period ends.
• October 28 – Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
• November 2 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time, to be observed nationally.
• November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1868: Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour.

November 27: Battle of Washita River.

• November 7 – The Battle of Moturoa, New Zealand ends in a British defeat, due to an underestimate of Tītokowaru and his fortifications. Heavy casualties for the colonial army and light casualties for the Māori defenders.
• November 27 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River: In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.
• December 4 – Battle of Hakodate begins in Japan.
• December 6 – Paraguayan War – Battle of Ytororó or Ytororó: Field-Marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias leads 13,000 Brazilian troops against a Paraguayan fortified position of 5,000 troops.
• December 9 – The world's first traffic signal lights are installed at the junction of Great George Street and Bridge Street in the London Borough of Westminster.
• December 24 – The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.
• December 25 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.

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 مجهولة التاريخ

• Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron patents methods of color photography.
• Thomas Henry Huxley discovers what he thinks is primordial matter and names it bathybius haecklii (he admits his mistake in 1871).
• The Académie Julian, a major art school in Paris, France that admits women, is established.
• Brisbane Grammar School is founded, providing the opportunity for secondary education for the first time in the colony of Brisbane in Australia.
• Maryland School for the Deaf is established.
• The Dortmunder Actien Brauerei is founded in Germany.
• Herrenhäuser Brewery is established in Hanover, Germany.
• Tata Group is founded by Jamsetji Tata as a trading company in India.
• Scottish merchant Thomas Blake Glover develops Japan's first coal mine on Hashima Island.
• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson is established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Arizona in 1868, taking its territory from the former Diocese of Santa Fe. The Diocese of Tucson is canonically erected on May 8, 1897.
• The population of Japan reaches c. 30 million.

 مواليد

 January–March

Felix Hoffmann

Countess Markiewicz

• 1 يناير – Snitz Edwards, Hungarian-born actor (ت. 1937)
• January 6 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (ت. 1922)
• 9 يناير – S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (ت. 1939)
• January 11 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (ت. 1940)
• January 12 – Ioannis Trilivas, Greek general (ت. ? )
• January 15 – Otto von Lossow, Bavarian and German general (ت. 1938)
• January 18 – Kantarō Suzuki, 29th Prime Minister of Japan (ت. 1948)
• January 21 – Felix Hoffmann, German chemist (ت. 1946)
• January 31 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1928)
• February 4 – Constance Markievicz, Irish politician (ت. 1927)
• February 5 – Maxine Elliott, American actress (ت. 1940)
• February 10 – William Allen White, American journalist (ت. 1944)
• February 12 – William Faversham, English actor (ت. 1940)
• February 16 – Edward S. Curtis, American photographer, ethnologist, and film director (ت. 1952)
• February 20 – John Nathan Cobb, American author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher and educator (ت. 1930)
• February 23 – W. E. B. Du Bois, African American civil rights leader (ت. 1963)
• February 26 – Venceslau Brás, Brazilian president (ت. 1966)
• March 1 – Adolf von Trotha, German admiral (ت. 1940)
• March 5 – Agnes von Konow, Finnish animal rights advocate (ت. 1944)
• March 14 – Emily Murphy, Canadian woman's rights activist (ت. 1933)
• March 22 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1953)
• March 25 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (ت. 1932)
• March 28 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (ت. 1936)
• March 29 – Joseph Cawthorn, American actor (ت. 1949)

 April–June

Nicholas II of Russia

John L. Hines

Robert Falcon Scott

Karl Landsteiner

Miklós Horthy

• April 1 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (ت. 1918)
• April 8 – Herbert Jennings, American zoologist (ت. 1947)
• April 10
  • George Arliss, English actor (ت. 1946)
  • Asriel Günzig, Moravian rabbi (ت. 1931)
• April 12
  • Annie Stevens Perkins, American author (unknown year of death)
  • Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese admiral (ت. 1918)
• April 25
  • John Moisant, American aviator (ت. 1910)
  • Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager (ت. 1958)
• April 28 – Lucy Booth, fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (ت. 1953)
• May 6
  • Gaston Leroux, French writer (ت. 1927)
  • Nicholas II of Russia (ت. 1918)
• May 12 – Al Shean, German-born actor (ت. 1949)
• May 21 – John L. Hines, American general, former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (ت. 1968)
• May 29 – Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (ت. 1944)
• June 5 – James Connolly, Irish-Scots socialist (ت. 1916)
• June 6 – Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic Explorer (ت. 1912)
• June 7
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (ت. 1928)
  • John Sealy Townsend, Irish mathematical physicist (ت. 1957)
• June 14 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (ت. 1943)
• June 18
  • Miklós Horthy, Austro-Hungarian admiral and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (ت. 1957)
  • Georges Lacombe, French artist (ت. 1916)

 July–September

• July 4 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (ت. 1921)
• July 12 – Stefan George, German poet (ت. 1933)
• July 14 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator (ت. 1926)
• July 15 – Nobuyoshi Mutō, Japanese field marshal and ambassador (ت. 1933)
• July 17 – Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (ت. 1944)
• July 19 – Florence Foster Jenkins, American socialite and amateur operatic soprano (ت. 1944)
• July 20 – Miron Cristea, 38th Prime Minister of Romania (ت. 1939)
• July 24 – Princess Srivilailaksana The Princess of Suphanburi daughter of King Chulalongkorn of Siam and Chao Chom Manda Pae Bunnag (d.1904)
• July 28 – Theodor Wulf, German physicist and Jesuit (ت. 1946)
• August 5 – Oskar Merikanto, Finnish composer (ت. 1924)
• August 10 – Hugo Eckener, German dirigible engineer, Commander of Graf Zeppelin I (ت. 1954)
• August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist (ت. 1950)
• August 26 – Charles Stewart, Premier of Alberta (ت. 1946)
• September 1
  • Henri Bourassa, Canadian politician and publisher (ت. 1952)
  • Victor Villiger, Swiss-German chemist (ت. 1934)
• September 6 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (ت. 1947)
• September 8 – Seth Weeks, African American jazz mandolinist, composer, arranger and bandleader (ت. 1953)
• September 9 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer of fiction and non-fiction (ت. 1934)
• September 17 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (ت. 1956)
• September 22 – John T. Raulston, American state judge (Scopes Monkey Trial) (ت. 1956)

 October–December

John Nance Garner

Mary Brewster Hazelton

Arturo Alessandri

Fritz Haber

• October 4 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (ت. 1942)
• October 10 – Anne Hazen McFarland, American physician and medical journal editor (unknown year of death)
• October 18 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (ت. 1931)
• October 21 – Ernest Swinton, British Army general (ت. 1951)
• October 23 – William Rylands, English businessman and baronet (ت. 1948)
• November 7 – Delfim Moreira, Brazilian president (ت. 1920)
• November 8 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (ت. 1942)
• November 9 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (ت. 1934)
• November 14 – Arthur Hoey Davis, Australian author (ت. 1935)
• November 17 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (ت. 1918)
• November 22 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (ت. 1967)
• November 23 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (ت. 1953)
• November 30 – Ernest Newman, English music critic (ت. 1959)
• December 5 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German theoretical physicist (ت. 1951)
• December 9
  • Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1934)
  • Ivan Regen, Slovenian biologist (ت. 1947)
• December 19 – Eleanor Hodgman Porter, American novelist (ت. 1920)
• 20 ديسمبر – Arturo Alessandri, Chilean statesman, 3-Time President of Chile (ت. 1950)
• December 21 – George W. Fuller, American sanitation engineer (ت. 1934)
• December 22 – Jaan Tõnisson, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (ت. 1941?)
• December 25 – Eugenie Besserer, American silent film actress (ت. 1934)

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 Unknown date

• Harriet Ford, American actress and playwright (ت. 1949)
• Helena Theresa Goessmann, American academic (ت. 1926)
• Early ? (or November 24?) – Scott Joplin, African American ragtime composer and pianist (ت. 1917)

 وفيات

 يناير-يونيو

• January 20 – Damien Marchesseault, 7th Mayor of Los Angeles (suicide) (و. 1818)
• January 23 – János Erdélyi, Hungarian poet and ethnographer (و. 1814)
• January 28 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer (و. 1805)
• February 8 – Lai Wenguang, Chinese leader of the Taiping Rebellion and Nien Rebellion (و. 1827)
• February 10 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist (و. 1781)
• February 11 – Léon Foucault, French physicist (و. 1819)
• February 19 – Venancio Flores, Uruguayan general and president of Uruguay (و. 1808)
• February 29 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (و. 1786)
• March 4 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer (و. 1805)
• March 28 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (و. 1797)
• April 3 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (و. 1796)
• April 7 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian father of confederation (assassinated) (و. 1825)
• April 12 – James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, British politician and peer (و. 1791)
• April 13 – Emperor Theodore or Tewodros II of Ethiopia by suicide (و. 1818)
• April 21 – Henry O'Farrell, Irish-Australian criminal (executed) (و. 1833)
• May 7 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (و. 1778)
• May 10 – Henry Bennett, American politician (و. 1808)

John Crawfurd

• May 11 – John Crawfurd, Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author. Last British Resident of Singapore (و. 1783)
• May 17 – Isami Kondo, Commander of the Shinsengumi (و. 1834)
• May 22 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (و. 1801)
• May 23 – Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (و. 1809)
• June 1 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (و. 1791)
• June 22 – Heber C. Kimball, Latter Day Saint leader (و. 1801)
• June 29 – Sir John Lillie, British army officer, entrepreneur and inventor (و. 1790)

 يوليو-ديسمبر

Gioachino Rossini

Adah Isaacs Menken

Mongkut

• July 6 – Harada Sanosuke, Shinsengumi Captain (و. 1840)
• July 6 – Samuel Lover, Irish writer and composer (و. 1797)
• July 19 – Okita Sōji, Shinsengumi Captain (و. 1842 or 1844)
• July 21 – William Bland, Australian politician (و. 1789)
• July 26 – Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, English Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (و. 1791)
• July 29 – John Elliotson, English physician (و. 1791)
• August 3 – Edward Welch, Welsh architect (و. 1806)
• August 10 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress (و. 1835)
• August 11 – Thaddeus Stevens, American politician (و. 1792)
• August 25 – Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, German actress, writer and theater director (و. 1799)
• August 29 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, a German chemist (و. 1799)
• September 11 – Maria James, Welsh-born American poet (و. 1793)
• September 19 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (و. 1809)
• September 26 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (و. 1790)
• October 1 – Mongkut, Rama IV, King of Siam (و. 1804)
• October 9 – Howell Cobb, American politician (و. 1815)
• October 17 – Laura Secord, Canadian patriot (و. 1775)
• October 27 – Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (و. 1794)
• November 13 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (و. 1792)
• November 15 – James Mayer de Rothschild, German-born banker (و. 1792)
• November 27 – Chief Black Kettle, Southern Cheyenne Peace Chief, Survivor of Sand Creek massacre (و. 1803)
• December 6 – August Schleicher, German linguist (و. 1821)
• December 23 – Sir Herbert Edwardes, British army general and colonial administrator (و. 1819)
• December 25 – Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor (و. 1821)
• December 31 – Cyrus Kingsbury, American missionary and Choctaw linguist (b.1786)

 الهامش

• American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1868. Vol. 8. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1871 – via Hathi Trust. + via Google Books

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