Page 3: Historical Events In 1868

Mar 21   1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC   

Mar 22   Hamish MacCunn, composer   

Mar 23   U of Calif founded (Oakland Calif)   

Mar 23   University of California founded (Oakland CA).   

Mar 24   Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms.   

Mar 25   Bill Lockwood, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)   

Mar 26   Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36).   

Mar 27   Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)   

Mar 27   The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York   

Mar 28   Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter   

Mar 28   Death of the Earl of Cardigan, British general who led the ill-conceived Charge of the Light Brigade against the Russians during the Crimean War   

Mar 28   James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70.   

Mar 29   Ka'u District, Hawaii a 7.0 earthquake, the foreshock of the 7.9 earthquake on April 03, 1868.   

Mar 31   Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China.   

Mar 31   Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist   

Apr 01   Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac).   

Apr 01   Edmond Rostand, French author is born   

Apr 01   Hampton Institute opens.   

Apr 01   The Canadian Government fixes a uniform inaugural class postal rate of three cents; establishes Post Office Savings Bank.   

Apr 02   Eduard Jacobs, singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret).   

Apr 03   An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave.   

Apr 03   Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71   

Apr 05   J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test S Africa 1892).   

Apr 06   Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife.   

Apr 07   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   

Apr 08   Hampton Institute opens.   

Apr 10   1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem".   

Apr 10   Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala.   

Apr 10   George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)   

Apr 11   The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.   

Apr 13   Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.   

Apr 13   John Blackwood McEwen, composer   

Apr 13   Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide   

Apr 14   SC voters approved constitution, 70758 to 27228   

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Jan 01   Snitz edwards: American actor   

Jan 03   Franz v m cumont: Belgian religious historian   

Jan 06   Vittorio monti: Composer   

Jan 07   Abraham m "mark" lidzbarski: Polish/german orientalist   

Jan 08   Frank dyson: Proved einstein right about light bent by gravity   

Jan 09   S. p. l. sørensen: Danish chemist    

Jan 11   Cai yuanpei: Chinese educator    

Jan 14   Catharina a m de savornin lohman: Dutch author (belief)   

Jan 03   Moritz hauptmann: Composer,    

Jan 07   William batchelder bradbury: Composer,    

Jan 14   Heinrich schenker: Austrian musicologist (ursatz),    

Jan 22   Moritz ganz: Composer,   

Jan 28   Adalbert stifter: Austrian author (witiko), commits suicide at 62   

Feb 11   Leon foucault: Discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation,    

Feb 29   [charles] louis i [augustus]: King of bavaria (l montez),   

Mar 02   Carl eberwein: Composer,