• Events from the year 1868 in Ireland. January – American transport entrepreneur George Francis Train is arrested in Cork for debt and spends much of the...
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    schools (Irish: Scoileanna Saothair, IPA: [ˈsˠkɛlʲən̪ˠə ˈsˠiːhəɾʲ]) were established in Ireland under the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868 to care...
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    The 1868 United States presidential election was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of...
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    title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1868 and bestowed upon James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn. Although the Dukedom is in the Peerage...
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    (Ireland) 1868 or the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 25) was an act of Parliament which created industrial schools in Ireland...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1868. 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting...
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    The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 49) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. The act did not alter the overall...
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    Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1866 and ended in 1868 was led by Lord Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons...
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    The 1868 United Kingdom general election in Ireland resulted in the Liberals under Gladstone strengthening their control over Ireland, particularly the...
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  • valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868. Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain...
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    The Rupert's Land Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 105) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was), authorizing...
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    The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing...
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  • Surgeon General of the United States Army Robert James Patterson (1868–1930), Irish Presbyterian minister and temperance activist Robert Paterson (disambiguation)...
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    James Connolly (category 1868 births)
    James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed...
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  • The year 1868 in architecture involved some significant events. April 4 – Eduard van der Nüll hangs himself in disappointment at the public reaction to...
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    subordinate grange was founded in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 1868, and Ireland served as the schoolmaster. Ireland was responsible for the publication...
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  • Events from the year 1868 in literature . January – Émile Zola defends his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin (1867), against charges of pornography and...
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  • The year 1868 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. January 30 – Publication of Charles Darwin's The Variation of...
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  • musician (bassist) Vincent McNabb (1868–1943), Irish scholar and priest Fictional Characters Colin McNabb, a character in Agatha Christie's novel Hickory...
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    defeated at the 1868 general election, so in December 1868 the victorious William Gladstone formed his first government. He introduced reforms in the British...
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    original text related to this article: Acts of Parliament, 1868 Events from the year 1868 in Canada. Monarch – Victoria Governor General – Charles Monck...
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  • George Forbes (footballer, born 1868) (1868–?), Irish footballer George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard (1685–1765), Anglo-Irish naval commander and diplomatist...
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    Irish Republic in the ongoing Irish War of Independence. The conflict resulted in the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921. Under the treaty, Ireland would...
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  • 1868 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. National championship National Association of Base Ball Players champion – New York Mutuals...
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    James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
    Marquess of Abercorn from 1818 to 1868, was a British Conservative statesman who twice served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Born into an Ulster-Scots aristocratic...
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    Benjamin Guinness (category UK MPs 1865–1868)
    Guinness, 1st Baronet (1 November 1798 – 19 May 1868) was an Irish brewer and philanthropist. Born in Dublin, he was the third son of the second Arthur...
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    Michael Harrison: 1867 – 1868 John Thomas Ball: 18681868 Henry Ormsby: 18681868 Charles Robert Barry: 12 December 1868 – 26 January 1870 Richard...
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    June 1868. "31 & 32 Victoria c.60". The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His Majesty's statute and law Printers. 1868. pp. 248–263...
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  • Events from the year 1868 in art. Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris. Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin established. English merchant...
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  • politician (born 1802) Timeline of Scottish history 1868 in Ireland "The ending of public executions in the 19th century". www.capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved...
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