About the day » Friday August 14, 1868Calender converter

• --- Verbeek, Naaldwijk († 1868)
• Albertus van Dijk, Renswoude, Nederland († 1944)
• Alida ROOS, Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 1955)
• Adriana Johanna Maria Heinsbroek, Schiedam, ZH, Nederland († 1868)
• Aafje Dobber, Middelie († 1892)
• Aafje Dobber, Middelie, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1892)
• Abraham Maarleveld, Oud-Beijerland († 1936)
• Aafje De Jong, Rotterdam († 1925)
• Abram Ens, Burwalde Colony, Chortitza, Ukraine († 1919)
• Adrianus Lambertus van Vuure, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Adriana Maria Penning, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• -- Kamps, Eelde
• Arie Van Oosterom (Van Oostrum) (80), Wilnis, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Arends (0), Eelde, Drenthe, Netherlands(Paterswolde)
• Afien KRAAIMA (0), Bedum
• Anne Hélène Vanderheyden (71), Lummen
• Apolonia Baart (0), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Netherlands
• ?? Hazelhoff (0), (GR) Winschoten
• Adriaan Wolse (25), Wissenkerke
• Annetje Visser (0), Monnickendam

• 1857 » Max Wagenknecht, German organist, composer, and educator († 1922)
• 1863 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author († 1940)
• 1865 » Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic († 1952)
• 1866 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1867 » Cupid Childs, American baseball player († 1912)
• 1867 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1933)
• 1870 » Nelson McDowell, American actor († 1947)
• 1871 » Guangxu Emperor of China († 1908)
• 1875 » Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian-American painter and illustrator († 1957)
• 1876 » Alexander I of Serbia († 1903)

• 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
• 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
• 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
• 1870 » David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
• 1874 » Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)
• 1890 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
• 1905 » Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 » William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)
• 1926 » John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
• 1928 » Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)

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 23 » The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
• April 10 » At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
• June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
• October 10 » The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
• November 3 » John Willis Menard (R-Louisiana) was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.

The temperature on August 14, 1868 was about 24.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.