What Happened In May 1868 - Historical Events 1868 May

Historical Events for May, 1868

14th » Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
16th » United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his Impeachment of Andrew Johnson e.g impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
29th » The assassination of Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia named Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.

6th » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (d. 1927)
10th » Ed Barrow, American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
13th » Sumner Paine, American target shooter (d. 1904)
14th » Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
17th » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (d. 1920)
18th » Nicholas II of Russia, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (d. 1918)
24th » Charlie Taylor (mechanic) named Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956)
27th » Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet (d. 1924)

7th » Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
10th » Henry Bennett (U.S. politician) named Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
17th » Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (b. 1834)
22nd » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
23rd » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)