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| 1868 |
| | | Richard Wagner's opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg has its premiere in Munich | |
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| 1868 |
| | | US author Louisa May Alcott begins serial publication of her book for children, Little Women (in book form 1869) | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes The Idiot, a novel about the simple-minded and truthful Prince Myshkin | |
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| 1868 |
| | | An armed uprising against Spanish rule takes place in the town of Lares in Puerto Rico, becoming known as the Grito de Lares ('Cry of Lares') | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone becomes British prime minister, for the first of four times, and remains in office for six years | |
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| 1868 |
| | | George Custer leads federal troops in the massacre of more than 100 American Indians, on an official reservation beside the Washita river | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant wins the US presidential election, as the Republican candidate against Democrat Horatio Seymour | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Johannes Brahms' German Requiem, setting passages from Luther's translation of the Bible, has its first complete performance in Leipzig | |
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| 1869 |
| | | The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (ratified in 1870) makes it illegal to deny the right to vote on racial grounds | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Dmitry Mendeleyev reads to the Russian Chemical Society in St Petersburg his formulation of the periodic table | |
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