About the day » Sunday March 22, 1868Calender converter

• Aalt Koopman, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1936)
• Alwine Hoffmann, Rüppershausen, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1868)
• Anna Henderika Midden van, Assen (Kloosterveen), Dr, Nederland
• Anna Antoneta Magdalena Paulus, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Angenieta BLEIJENBERG, Hei-en Boeicop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1868)
• Anna Hendrika Midden van, Kloosterveen (Assen)
• Aalt Koopman, Putten († 1936)
• Straver, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika Midden van, Kloosterveen (Assen)
• Anna Walburgis Ernst, Emen, Haren (Ems) († 1869)

• Alijda Everdina de Rooij (0), Zutphen
• Bastiaan Verheij (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Basten (33), Utrecht
• Berendina Johanna Maria Reimelink (33), Groenlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Roberts (0)
• Barbara van Deursen, Zwijndrecht
• Aart Vrijhoef (78), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Heyn (0)
• Antje TAAMS (40), Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Oskam (73), Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1852 » Hector Sévin, French cardinal († 1916)
• 1852 » Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and educator († 1934)
• 1855 » Dorothy Tennant, British painter († 1926)
• 1857 » Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France († 1932)
• 1866 » Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire († 1913)
• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)
• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)

• 1820 » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Petronella
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 2 » Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
• March 5 » Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
• March 23 » The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
• May 14 » Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
• November 4 » Camagüey, Cuba, revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
• December 10 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

The temperature on March 22, 1868 was about 12.3 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.