1868
From dKosopedia
Events
- End of the Bakumutsu and beginning of the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
- Canadian anti-marijuana crusader Emily F. Murphy (pseudonym: Janey Canuck) born in Cookstwon, Ontario.
- First tiny wave of Japanese immigrants (148) move to the United States as contract laborers.
- U.S. and China sign the Burlingame Treaty.
Timeline
- February 23: W.E.B. du Bois or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is born.
- September 24: Punishment of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is remitted and he returns to the frontier.
