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History

1868

Population: 1.30 Billion*

Entertainment: Writers include Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Brandes, AH Stephens (constitutionality of civil war), Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins (detective story), Dostoevsky (The Idiot)
Art includes Degas ("L'Orchestre"), French impressionist style developed, Hans Makars ("The Plague in Florence"), Renoir ("The Skaters")
Music includes Brahms ("A German Requiem"), Moussorgsky, Wagner, Tchaikovsky,
Politics: Bakunin founds democratic alliance
Science: Darwin writes about variation of domesticated species
Ernst Haeckel writes "Natural History of Creation" - Haeckel asserts 12 species of humans and 22 phases... coins "missing link"
Skeleton of Cro-Magnon man from Upper Paleolithic found in France
Huxley publishes on intermediates between birds and reptiles
Technology: Sholes invents typewrites
Leclanché invents dry-cell battery for flashlights
Deaths: Statesman Henry Peter Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux), Louis I of Bavaria, Composer Rossini, Writer Adalbert Stifter, Composer Halfdan Kjerulf, Poetess Adah Isaacs Menken age 33,

General: Quake in Atlantic causes tsunami
Basutoland: Becomes British protectorate – later Lesotho in 1966
Ethiopia: End of reign of Emperor Theodore
British armed expedition captures Magdala to release diplomats
Orange Free State: Wars between Europeans and Basuto people end

General: Quake in Atlantic causes tsunami
Earthquakes over the course of three days kill 25,000 in Central America
Cuba: Rebellion against Spain lasts 10 years
Ecuador: Earthquake

India: Drought and famine
Japan: Ezo declares independence from Japan after defeat of Tokugawa shogunate during Boshin War
Return of Meiji period as capital moved to Edo (Tokyo) and Tokugawa shogunate abolished - Shogun Kekei abdicates
Emperor Mushuhito rules and Westernizes to 1922
Thailand: End of King Rama IV - Rama V rules and country opens to foreign trade