WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1868
Find out what all happened January to November 1868

The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia. (1. March 1868)

The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala. (13. April 1868)

The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade. (29. May 1868)

American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. (27. November 1868)

John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated. (3. November 1868)

Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō. (14. May 1868)

Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer." (23. June 1868)

Spanish revolution: La Gloriosa. (19. September 1868)

Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date. (7. October 1868)

Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence (10. October 1868)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician. (7. April 1868)

Camagüey, Cuba revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War. (4. November 1868)

The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. (1. June 1868)

Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. (11. April 1868)

Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka. (8. March 1868)

The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia. (25. September 1868)

Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground. (2. February 1868)

President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate. (16. May 1868)

Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala. (5. March 1868)

Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. (12. March 1868)