WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1868
Find out what all happened February to November 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)

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

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

A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården. (30. November 1868)

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

French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. (18. August 1868)

Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally. (2. November 1868)

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law. (9. July 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)

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

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

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

Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule. (23. September 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)

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)

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)

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

Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate. (24. February 1868)