Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1868 - Events. 1868 - January—April. January 3 - Meiji Emperor declares "Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogun ...

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1868 in rail transport - May births. May 26 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944). ...

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In Japanese history, a shogun (将軍 shōgun) was the practical ruler of Japan for most of the time from 1192 to the Meiji Era beginning in 1868. A Shogun's administration is a shogunate, or bakufu (幕府), literally "tent government", in Japanese. The term shōgun means "General" whereas the full title Seii Taishōgun (征夷大将軍) means "generalissimo who overcomes the barbarians", ie. the aborigine Ainu people who once inhabited Honshu and Hokkaido. Used in common reference to the historical full title, the term shōgun i ...

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• Shogun - Conquest of the Ainu
• Shogun - Genpei
• Shogun - Seii Taishogun of Feudal Period Japan 1185 - 1868
• Shogun - Kamakura Shogunate
• Shogun - Kemmu Restoration
• Shogun - Muromachi and Edo Shogunates
• Shogun - List of Seii Taishoguns
• Shogun - Shogunate

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The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). He was a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli. Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career. She once complained, "He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting." Gladstone was known affectionately by his suppo ...

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• William Ewart Gladstone - Minister under Peel
• William Ewart Gladstone - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• William Ewart Gladstone - First ministry 1868–1874
• William Ewart Gladstone - Out of Office and the Midlothian Campaign
• William Ewart Gladstone - Second ministry 1880–1885
• William Ewart Gladstone - Third ministry 1886
• William Ewart Gladstone - Fourth ministry 1892–1894
• William Ewart Gladstone - Final years
• William Ewart Gladstone - Gladstone's Governments
• William Ewart Gladstone - Biographies
• William Ewart Gladstone - Political offices

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Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (*January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; † November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German Biologist. Ernst Mayr ranks him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann advocated the germ plasm theory, stating that a multicellular organism consists of germ cells that pass on hereditary information, and somatic cells that perform body functions. The germ cells are not affected by anything the body learns or any ability it acquires duri ...

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• August Weismann - Professional life
• August Weismann - Contributions to evolutionary biology
• August Weismann - 1868-1881/82
• August Weismann - 1882-1895
• August Weismann - 1896-1910
• August Weismann - Some written work
• August Weismann - Literature

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Carlism is a conservative, legitimist political movement in Spain seeking, among other things, the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne. An exceptionally long-lived movement, it was a significant player in Spanish politics from 1833 until the demise of Franco's regime in 1977. During those years, it was the cause of several major civil wars during the 19th century, and an important factor during the most recent Spanish Civil War. Even today, many Carlists remain politically active, though they a ...

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• Carlism - The dynastic issue
• Carlism - The political landscape at the death of Fernando VII
• Carlism - Social and economical factors
• Carlism - History of Carlism
• Carlism - Carlists at war 1833-1876
• Carlism - Carlists in peace 1868-1936
• Carlism - Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
• Carlism - Carlism after the Spanish Civil War 1937-
• Carlism - Pretenders to the throne
• Carlism - Carlos V Maria Isidro
• Carlism - Carlos VI Luis
• Carlism - Juan III
• Carlism - Carlos VII Maria de los Dolores
• Carlism - Jaime III
• Carlism - Alfonso Carlos
• Carlism - Late Pretenders
• Carlism - Carlist ideological landscape
• Carlism - Dios Patria Fueros Rey
• Carlism - Carlist Supporters
• Carlism - Offshots and influence
• Carlism - Carlist symbols
• Carlism - Carlism related words
• Carlism - Carlism and Literature
• Carlism - Note
• Carlism - On line references
• Carlism - Basic Bibliography

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Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved national fame as a hero of the American Civil War, in which he commanded Union forces as a general, and as general-in-chief (1864–1869). Grant has been described by military historian J. F. C. Fuller as "the greatest general of his age and one of the greatest strategists of any age." He won many important battles and is often credited with defeating the Confederacy. As President, many historians consider ...

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• Ulysses S. Grant - Mexican War
• Ulysses S. Grant - Between the Wars
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• Ulysses S. Grant - General-in-chief and strategy for victory
• Ulysses S. Grant - Overland Campaign Petersburg and Appomattox
• Ulysses S. Grant - Presidency
• Ulysses S. Grant - Cabinet
• Ulysses S. Grant - Supreme Court appointments
• Ulysses S. Grant - States admitted to the Union
• Ulysses S. Grant - Later life
• Ulysses S. Grant - Timeline
• Ulysses S. Grant - Legacy
• Ulysses S. Grant - Anti-Semitism
• Ulysses S. Grant - In memoriam
• Ulysses S. Grant - Trivia
• Ulysses S. Grant - Notes

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Bagnols-sur-Cèze is a French market town of 18,761 inhabitants in the Gard département in the Languedoc-Roussillon région. It contains a notable museum of contemporary art, the Musée Albert-André, founded in 1868. ...

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Wilhelm Stekel (1868 -1940) was a psychologist and one of Sigmund Freud's earliest followers. He wrote a book called "Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis", first published in 1950. Other related archives1868, 1940, Sigmund Freud, psychologist

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Abdul Mejid II (also with various alternate spellings, including Abd-ul-Mejid, Abdul Medjit, and, in modern Turkish, Abdülmecit; in Arabic عبد المجيد الثانى ) (lived May 29, 1868 – August 23, 1944; reigned November 19, 1922 – March 3, 1924) was the last Caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty, the 101st Caliph in line from Caliph Abu Bakr and nominally the 37th and last Head of the Ottoman Imperial House. On May 29, 1868 he was born at Dolmabahçe Palace of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) to th ...

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August Natterer (1868 - 1933), also known as Neter, was a schizophrenic German outsider artist. August Natterer - Biography. August Natterer, given the pseudonym Neter by his psychiatrist to protect him and his family from the immense social stigma associated with mental illness at the time, was born in 1868 in Schornreute, near Ravensburg, Germany, the son of a clerk and the youngest of nine children. Natterer studied engineering, got married, traveled widely, and had a successful career as a ...

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King Constantine I of the Hellenes (2 August 1868 - 11 January 1923), ruled Greece from 1913-1917 and from 1920-1922. Born 2 August 1868 in Athens, he was the eldest son of George I of Greece and Olga, Queen of Greece. As crown prince, Constantine was instrumental in the organization of the 1896 Summer Olympics, appointing a committee to prepare Athens for the Games and keeping a close watch to ensure that their tasks were completed. He succeeded to the throne of Greece on 1 ...

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Sir Walter Besant (August 14, 1836 - June 9, 1901), was a novelist and historian from London. He was born at Portsmouth and educated at King's College, London, and Cambridge, was for a few years a professor at Mauritius, but a breakdown in health compelled him to resign, and he returned to England and took the duties of Secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund, which he held 1868-85. He published in 1868 Studies in French Poetry. Three years later he began his collaboration with James Rice. Among their joint productio ...

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Clareson Nott Potter (1825 - 1882), was a American civil engineer, then (1848-1868) a practising lawyer in New York City, and in 1869-1875 and in 1877-1881 a Democratic member of the National House of Representatives. See also. List of former members of the U.S. House of Representatives ...

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The term Begum of Bhopal may refer to any of several ladies who ruled the princely state of Bhopal in Central India in the 19th and 20th centuries. They included: Qudsia Begum, Regent of Bhopal (regent, 1819-1837) Nawab Sikandar Begum, (ruled 1860-1868) Begum Sultan Shah Jehan, (ruled 1844-1860 and 1868-1901) Begum Kaikhusrau Jahan, (ruled 1901-26) Begum Sajida Sultan, (1961-95) The term "Begum of Bhopal" may in theory also refer to the wives of male nawabs of Bh ...

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99 Dike (dye'-kee) is a quite large and dark main belt asteroid. Dike was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on May 28, 1868. It was his first asteroid discovery. It is named after Dike, the Greek goddess of moral justice. … | Previous minor planet | 99 Dike | Next minor planet | … Category: Main Belt asteroids ...

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103 Hera is a large main belt asteroid. It has probably a composition of metallic nickel-iron and silicates. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 7, 1868 and named after Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology. … | Previous minor planet | 103 Hera | Next minor planet | … Category: Main Belt asteroids ...

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The First Vatican Council was summoned by Pope Pius IX by the bull Aeterni Patris of June 29, 1868. The first session was held in Saint Peter's Basilica on December 8, 1869. It was the 20th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church. Nearly 800 church leaders attended. The pope's primary purpose was to obtain confirmation of the position he had taken in his Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning a wide range of positio ...

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Burlingame may refer to: Anson Burlingame - 19th century American diplomat. A US-China treaty was named after him, along with towns in California and Kansas. Burlingame, California Burlingame, Kansas Burlingame Treaty - 1868 Treaty between the US and China. Other related archives1868, Anson Burlingame, Burlingame Treaty, Burlingame, California, Burlingame, Kansas, California, China, Kansas, US

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