1868

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Events

End of the Bakumutsu and beginning of the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
Canadian anti-marijuana crusader Emily F. Murphy (pseudonym: Janey Canuck) born in Cookstwon, Ontario.
First tiny wave of Japanese immigrants (148) move to the United States as contract laborers.
U.S. and China sign the Burlingame Treaty.

Timeline

February 23: W.E.B. du Bois or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is born.
September 24: Punishment of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is remitted and he returns to the frontier.

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